Bibliograph

The game of silence, Louise Erdrich

Type

Label

The game of silence, Louise Erdrich

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The game of silence

Oclc number

70183325

Responsibility statement

Louise Erdrich

Summary

Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. 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

Table Of Contents

Neebin (Summer) -- Dagwaging (Fall) -- Biboon (Winter) -- Zeegwun (Spring)

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification