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Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn, (author.).

Summary:

Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781608195220
  • ISBN: 1608195228
  • ISBN: 9781608196265
  • ISBN: 1608196267
  • Physical Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY ; Bloomsbury USA : 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The first day : birth in a bare-bulb place -- The second day : hidden eggs -- The third day : sickness in the dirt -- The fourth day : worth stealing -- The fifth day : salvage the bones -- The sixth day : a steady hand -- The seventh day : game dogs and game men -- The eighth day : make them know -- The ninth day : hurricane eclipse -- The tenth day : in the endless eye -- The eleventh day : Katrina -- The twelfth day : alive.
Citation/References Note:
Library Journal Starred
Pub Weekly
Wilson's Fiction
Booklist, August 2011
Kirkus Starred, December 2011
Library Journal Starred, August 2011
New York Times, January 2012
Pub Weekly, May 2011
Wilson's Fiction, January 2012
Target Audience Note:
Adult.
Adult Follett Library Resources.
890L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 13 152039.
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 13 SD Quiz 152039 English fiction.
Awards Note:
Alex Award, 2012

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Subject:
African American children > Fiction.
African American teenage girls > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Motherless families > Fiction.
African American families > Mississippi > Fiction.
Rural poor > Mississippi > Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Fiction.
Siblings.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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