A National Book Award FinalistThe family spends its summers in a house made of birchbark, harvest time at ricing camp and winters in a cedar log house before harvesting sugar maple at camp in the spring. Nokomis always urges Omakayas to learn the old ways of her tribe and to listen for the spirits in nature. Age Range: 9-12 | Grade Level: 3-7 | Lexile Measure: 970L | The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters