A chapter book for older readers.
Every spring Omakayas and her family build themselves a new birchbark house; every autumn they move on. The seasons come and go, while Omakayas adopts a pet crow, makes friends with some bears, helps with the baby, fights with her little brother Pinch, and tries to be more like her beautiful big sister. But this is a year of heartbreak as well as happiness. The coming of the white people means that the ways of the Ojibwa are about to change for ever. And Omakayas, forced to grow up in a hurry, learns who she really is.
This is a breathtaking story filled with fascinating detail about Native American life, by a writer who is herself a member of the Ojibwa tribe.
