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The Game of Silence
By Erdrich, Louise
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06029-789-3 978-0-06029-790-9 978-0-06075-839-4
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2005
Gr 5-8 Omakayas's tale, begun in "The Birchbark House" (Hyperion, 1999), continues in this book. Older and more insightful, Omakayas begins to understand the elements of life more fully as she accepts her gift of telling dreams. Changes are coming to the Ojibwa people and she struggles to deal with all that she is experiencing and her dreams foretell. Her sister falls in love with a warrior, strange and lost members of her tribe come to rely on...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2005
Nine-year-old Omakayas; her pet crow, Andeg; and the rest of her family have returned to their summer home, but things are changing. In this sequel to The Birchbark House (rev. 5/99), Erdrich deftly revisits the events of the previous book, including the devastating death of Omakayas's baby brother, Neewo, in the smallpox outbreak that took so many villagers' lives. And now a new threat has come: another group of Ojibwe, starving and barely alive, arrive with news of the e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
