Be Not Far from Me

After The End

Acadia National Park: Eye of the Whale (Adventures with the Parkers) (Adventures with the Parkers (11))

I Am Still Alive

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

DUNC'S DUMP (Culpepper Adventures Book 10)

Winter of Sinking Waters: A Wilderness Horse Adventure (Whinnies on the Wind Book 5)

The Way Past Winter

Birchbark House

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. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.



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.”

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Be Not Far from Me

Mindy Mcginnis, 2020

After The End

Amy Plum, 2014

Acadia National Park: Eye of the Whale (Adventures with the Parkers) (Adventures with the Parkers (11))

Mike Graf, 2013

I Am Still Alive

Kate Alice Marshall, 2018

The Luis Ortega Survival Club

Sonora Reyes, 2023

DUNC'S DUMP (Culpepper Adventures Book 10)

Gary Paulsen, 1993

Winter of Sinking Waters: A Wilderness Horse Adventure (Whinnies on the Wind Book 5)

Angela Dorsey, 2011

The Way Past Winter

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, 2018