The Game of Silence
On Sale: 06/13/2006
The Game of Silence
On Sale: 06/13/2006
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Horn Book Fanfare
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice
ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
New York Times Notable
About the Book
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”
Critical Praise
“Memorable.” — Chicago Tribune
“Full of humor, richness and heart.” — Wisconsin State Journal
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780064410298
- ISBN 10: 0064410293
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- On Sale: 06/13/2006
- Pages: 288
- List Price:12.50 CAD
- Ages: 8 to 12
- BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational
- BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century
- BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American