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The game of silence

Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, ©2005.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Genre/Form: Children's stories
Juvenile materials
Historical fiction
Fiction
History
Juvenile works
Juvenile literature
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 0060297891 9780060297893 0060297905 9780060297909 9780064410298 0064410293
OCLC Number: 54822509
Awards: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2006
Target Audience: Middle School.; 900
Description: xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents: Neebin (Summer) --
Dagwaging (Fall) --
Biboon (Winter) --
Zeegwun (Spring).
Responsibility: Louise Erdrich.
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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.

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