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.

 

This is volume 2 in Birchbark House .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Louise Erdrich is the critically acclaimed author of several novels for adults, published here as well as in the US. THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE, her first children?s book, was inspired by her own family history ? she is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwa. She lives in Minnesota with her two daughters.