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Book Club Kit : Salvage the bones (10 copies) Jesmyn Ward.

Ward, Jesmyn, (author.).

Summary:

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781608195220
  • ISBN: 1608195228
  • ISBN: 9781408827000
  • ISBN: 140882700X
  • ISBN: 9781608196265 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 1608196267 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 271 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.

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.
Study Program Information Note:
Reading Counts High School 5.7 20.
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 13 SD Quiz 152039 English fiction.
Awards Note:
National Book Award, Fiction, 2011.
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.
Gulf Coast (Miss.) > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Natural disasters > Fiction.
Family life > Fiction.
Genre: Family
Miscellaneous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Survival stories.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
APLS BOOK CLUB 813.6 WAR 2011 31291002884771 BOOK CLUB Available -


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