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This National Book Award finalist by
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first
installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years
in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior
black-and-white artwork done by the author.
She was named Omakayas, or Little
Frog, because her first step was a hop.
Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior.
Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on
their land, life continues much as it always has.
But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when
a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him
an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will
eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling.
By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking
tour de force by a gifted writer.
The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise
Erdrich includes The Birchbark
House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee,
and Makoons.
Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.
No phone.No Internet.And not a single word from Logan.
Maddie tells herself it's okay. After all, she's the most popular girl for 20 miles in any direction. She has wood to cut and weapons to bedazzle. Her life is full.Until Logan shows up six years later . . . And Maddie wants to kill him.
But before that can happen, an assailant appears out of nowhere, knocking Maddie off a cliff and dragging Logan to some unknown fate. Maddie knows she could turn back- and get help. But the weather is turning and the terrain will only get more treacherous, the animals more deadly.
Maddie still really wants to kill Logan. But she has to save him first.