The Game of Silence

By Louise Erdrich

Book #2 in the The Birchbark House series

A young girl faces the threat of losing her home and way of life in 1850.

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271 pages· 53,684 words· Est. 7.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

In 1850, Omakayas, known as Little Frog, lives peacefully on an island in Lake Superior. Her world is shaken when mysterious visitors bring news that threatens her home and way of life. As the white settlers demand her people move west, Omakayas must confront the possibility of losing everything she holds dear. Will she find a way to protect her family and their traditions, or will they be forced to leave the only home they've ever known? Discover the poignant journey of one Ojibwe family in a changing America.

From the publisher

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.”