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The Game of Silence

by Louise Erdrich

Home and change on Lake Superior

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

    The metadata identifies The Game of Silence as the winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

  • Author recognition

    New York Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Louise Erdrich as a New York Times bestselling author.

  • Critical praise

    Praised by The New York Times Book Review

    The New York Times Book Review praised the book as creating a fictional but real world that is absorbing, funny,...

AlbakiReads Editorial

Home and change on Lake Superior

Set in 1850 on an island in Lake Superior, the novel follows Omakayas as she learns that white settlers want her Ojibwe community to leave its home and move farther west. This second book in the Birchbark House series brings the threat of displacement into focus through the possible loss of a home, a community, and a way of life. The series traces one Ojibwe family’s journey across a century in America, while this installment centers on a moment when that history presses directly on Omakayas and her people.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • A fit for readers ages 9–12 interested in historical fiction.
  • For readers seeking fiction centered on Ojibwe people and history.
  • Suitable for readers continuing the Birchbark House series.

Themes

Ojibwe community and historyDisplacement and belongingHome and cultural continuity

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Book overview

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.

 

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.

The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: "Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human."

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