She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. 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.” The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. 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. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.

It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. 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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