The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich

The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich

Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits. When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no matter where she is, or how she is living, she has the one thing she needs to carry her through.

"Erdrich is a talented storytellerShe has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious, and convincingly human." -- New York Times Book Review on The Game of Silence "Readers who loved Omakayas and her family in The Birchbark House have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully constructed sequel." -- Kirkus (starred review) on The Game of Silence "Readers will want to follow this family for many seasons to come." -- Publishers Weekly on The Birchbark House "Charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life." -- Kirkus Reviews on The Birchbark House "The struggle to survive provides the exciting action in this sequel to The Birchbark House (1999) and The Game of Silence (2005), which takes place in 1852. What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told." -- Booklist (starred review) "The novel reinforces the strength and importance of family." -- KLIATT (starred review) "Charming and enlightening." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The events in this installment will both delight and appall readers." -- School Library Journal (starred review)

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

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ISBN 13	9780064410304
ISBN 10	0064410307
Title	The Porcupine Year
Author	Louise Erdrich
Series	Birchbark House
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2014-09-11
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Winner of Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book (United States)., Winner of ALA Notable Children’s Book (United States)., Winner of Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice (United States).
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