"The sixth book in the Birchbark House series, spanning one hundred years in the life of one Ojibwe family, by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. In this first book about Anak, she grapples with the devastating effects of the near extinction of the buffalo population while navigating her identity.
Thirteen-year-old Anakwad prefers to split logs and help her father and uncle collect buffalo bones instead of cooking and learning to do beadwork at home. With the buffalo population decimated by white settlers on the Great Plains, Anak and her Ojibwe family have resorted to the gruesome, toiling work of selling the animals’ bones to the white men who run the bone yard to make ends meet.
But when Anak discovers that her reservation’s graveyard has been disturbed, she learns the devasting truth behind the bone yard. Meanwhile, an old enemy is silently lurking--one that puts Anak’s entire reservation in serious danger."
"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.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
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. Her home.
The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. 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.”"
