the words of Keewaydinoquay contain layers of understanding

to a life of drunkenness

declares: “Our relatives are watching over us

Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage

Chickadee voices the words of Keewaydinoquay containBook four in The Birchbark House series. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have spent every day side by side and have done everything together since they were bornuntil the day the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all,