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The Porcupine Year

by Louise Erdrich Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS

Critically Recognized

A family’s search for a new home

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    Kirkus Reviews starred review

    Kirkus Reviews gave the book a starred review and praised it as “charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bu...

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A family’s search for a new home

Set in the Birchbark House series, this installment follows twelve-year-old Omakayas and her family as they journey in search of a place to live. Their struggle to survive brings Omakayas into closer attention to the land and the spirits around her. The book places one family’s experience within the series’ broader account of an Ojibwe family’s journey across a century in America, linking a particular move to a wider history of displacement and change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Ages 9–12, as indicated by the supplied audience metadata.
  • Readers interested in stories about Ojibwe family life and history.
  • Readers following the Birchbark House series or seeking a story of a family’s journey and survival.

Themes

Family and homeOjibwe history and cultureSurvivalLearning from the land and spirits

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Book overview

The third novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author 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.

The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Porcupine Year is "charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life."

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