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Picking right up where its predecessor, Chickadee, left off, Makoons follows twin Ojibwe brothers, Chickadee and Makoon, after Makoon has returned from many trials. Still weak from his ordeal, Makoon has a vision of the challenges that will face the family in the future. His predictions turn out to be correct as the family suffers many losses, some due to old age, and others to disease. As always with the books in this series--this is the fifth one--the author includes descriptions of the hunt f
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Although this is the fifth book in the Birchbark House series, it's the first one I've read. It stands well alone, its characters and setting richly drawn. That said, I now want to read the other books in the series to meet the younger versions of characters that I grew to love, particularly Okamyas, Two Strike and Nokomis.
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Not my favorite. A book about a family of Native Americans. Buffalo hunts and the relationships involved in the family.
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