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Sweetgrass
—Hudson, Jan, 1954-1990.
1999

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Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781424222292
  • 0889670765
  • 0698117638
  • 0399217215

Description: 159 pages ; 20 cm

Target Audience Note: 10 and up.

Notes:

  • Canadian Library Association book of the year for children 1984.
  • Bibliography: pages 158-159.

Contents:

  • Summer berries
  • Eagle-sun's return
  • Revenge on otter
  • The river omen
  • Attacked!
  • Sun dance
  • A kettle of stew
  • The buffalo
  • Fever on the wind
  • The hunger begins
  • Death in the tipi
  • The river demon
  • A woman.

LCCN: 88025516

Control Number: 30242

Publisher: New York : Penguin Putnam Books, 1999.
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