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Author Ward, Jesmyn.

Title Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
©2011
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1913797~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F WARD    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F WARD    DUE 05-21-24
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Description 271 pages ; 21 cm
Note Includes reading group guide.
Contents 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.
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.
Audience 890 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 13.0 152039.
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.
ISBN 9781608196265 (pbk.)
1608196267 (pbk.)
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