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."

Author: Louise Erdrich
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 09/14/2010
Series: Birchbark House #3
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780064410304
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 124700 / Porcupine Year

About the Author
Erdrich, Louise: -

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.