Sweetgrass

by Jan Hudson

Book Overview

A masterpiece combining elements of an historical, a native American, a survival, and a coming-of-age novel set in the 19th-century western Canadian prairie.--School Library Journal, starred review. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698117638
• ISBN13: 9780698117631
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Book For Anyone

Sweetgrass is a wonderful story about a young Native American girl named Sweetgrass. Sweetgrass feels that no one in her Blackfoot tribe takes her seriously. She wants to prove her to father and her almost-mother that she is ready to get married. Her father and her almost-mother do not feel she is mature enough. However, during the hard winter Sweetgrass is forced to become a woman. Smallpox becomes a severe threat to her family and her tribe. Sweetgrass helps to nurse her family and helps them to overcome death. I recommend this book because it describes Native American culture in a way that is beneficial to the reader. It is full of excitement and suspense, which allows the reader to become fully involved. It is a great book for anyone!

OUTSTANDING

I had to read 2 books over the summer for school I picked 1 from the that the title made me want to read more about it.So I picked SWEETGRASS. Now this book is so good. It shows how 15 year old Sweetgrass belives that she is ready to be married.BUT she can't get married because her father doesnt think she is mature enough so...of course she has to show her maturity to her dad so she can marry EAGLE-SUN her 1 true love. So how does she get to show her maturity? Does she get to marry EAGLE-SUN? Read it to find Out! (and its not that long! )

Sweetgrass

The book was so interesting to read that I couldn't put down the book once I read about halfway through the book.

Awesome book!

I loved reading Sweetgrass.Once I started I couldn't stop. I recomended it to all of my friends.Read this story about a teenaged Blackfoot girl who longs to be married to Eagle Sun.Her fathrer is gone hunting when a Smallpox plague comes over their family. She must save her family alone and proves to truly be a woman.

Touching & Sad

This book was so good I couldn't put it down! I recomended it to my best friends(C.B. & M.C.) and they loved this book too. This book was written with so much feeling and emotion! I loved it! One of my favourite children's books of all time!