Birchbark House, The
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: June 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786814541
Subjects: People & Places - United States - Native American; Juvenile Fiction; Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Superior, Lake, Region; Children: Grades 4-6; Social Issues - Values; Ojibwa Indians; Historical - General; Juvenile Fiction / Ethnic / Native American; Juvenile Fiction / General; Indians of North America; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical
First sentence: SHE WAS NAMED OMAKAYAS, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop.
Description: Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.