The author's first novel for children centers on young Omakayas and her Ojibwa family who live on an island in Lake Superior in 1847; PW 's Best Books citation called it "captivating." Ages 9-up. (Aug ...

"Little House on the Prairie," by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published in 1935, tells the story of the Ingalls family, white settlers traveling West to Kansas from their home in Wisconsin. "The Birchbark ...

“The Birchbark House” follows a 7-year-old Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, and her family through Native-American life in the mid 1800s. It’s always good to look at history from various angles, and in this ...

Girl from Spirit Island -- Neebin (Summer): Birchbark house -- Old tallow -- Return -- Andeg: Deydey's ghost story -- Dagwaging (Fall): Fishtail's pipe -- Pinch ...

Erdrich's crisply envisioned novel, which chronicles a year in the life of an Ojibwa Indian girl and her family during the mid-1800s, loses a bit of its verve in this slightly bumpy audio adaptation.