num_pages: 176
description: To become a woman meant everything to Sweetgrass. But... how was a 15-year-old Blood girl to wait for her parents to choose her husband when her heart yearned for Eagle Sun? Set in the historic horse-and-gun period of the Blackfoot confederacy, this daring first novel charts unknown territory on the early 19th century prairie -- the lives of Native women caught up in the sweep of Western Canadian history.
language: English
title: Sweetgrass
titlecomplete: Sweetgrass
genres: Fiction, Historical, Native Americans, Teen, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Novels, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 399
places: North Dakota, Canadian Prairies
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Canada Council Children's Literature Award
publisher: Puffin Books