Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) was
recently awarded the 2013 Scott O’Dell
Award for Historical Fiction, for her latest story in the Birchbark House
series, Chickadee. In 2006, The Game of Silence, her second book in
the series, was recognized as the best historical fiction for young people.
The year is
now 1866 and Omakayas and Animikiins have 8-year-old twin sons – Chickadee
and Makoons. Their extended family, whom we know from the previous books, is
enjoying the warmer spring weather while maple sugaring. At least they are,
until Chickadee is taken by Zhigaagby’s two sons in revenge for a prank he
played on the old man.
Finding strength and resourcefulness from his namesake
bird, Chickadee escapes and eventually finds his uncle and his family who has
been desperately tracking his kidnappers from the woods to the Great Plains.
The author is working on the fifth book about Chickadee’s twin,
Makoons, and we hope she continues with the stories which are based on her
family’s experiences.
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