Book Club Kit : Salvage the bones (10 copies)

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.