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Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawi ...Show more
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since they were born--until the unt ...Show more
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that mani ...Show more
Game Of Silence by Louise Erdrich
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the captivating sequel to her National Book Award finalist "The Birchbark House," Erdich continues the story of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl who lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior in 1850. As white men move closer to the island, Omakayas learns that all their lives may drastically c ...Show more
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreaux's five-year ...Show more
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and m ...Show more
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named "Omakayas," or Little Frog, who lived a year of flight and adventure, pain and joy, in 1852. When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey. They travel by can ...Show more
The Porcupine Year by Erdrich, Louise
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal ju ...Show more