The Resource Salvage the bones
Salvage the bones
Resource Information
The item Salvage the bones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Salvage the bones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A hurricane is threatening the coast of Mississippi. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much. Esch is fourteen and pregnant and her brother Skeetah sneaks scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter. Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Salvage the bones
- Title
- Salvage the bones
- Statement of responsibility
- Jesmyn Ward
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueAfrican American families
- trueRural poor -- Mississippi
- trueHurricane Katrina, 2005
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueMother-separated families
- trueTeenage pregnancy
- trueGulf Coast, Mississippi
- trueAfrican American teenage girls
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueMississippi
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A hurricane is threatening the coast of Mississippi. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much. Esch is fourteen and pregnant and her brother Skeetah sneaks scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter. Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting
- 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
- Award
-
- Alex Award, 2012.
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2011.
- Library Journal Best Books 2011
- New York Times Notable Book 2012
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10003061
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 890
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Wheeler Large Print
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Rural poor
- African American teenage girls
- Teenage pregnancy
- African American families
- Brothers and sisters
- Mother-separated families
- Mississippi
- Gulf Coast, Mississippi
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Salvage the bones
- Control code
- 19728692
- Extent
- 405 p.
- Isbn
- 9781410447111
- Label
- Salvage the bones
- Control code
- 19728692
- Extent
- 405 p.
- Isbn
- 9781410447111
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAfrican American families
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American teenage girls
- trueBrothers and sisters
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueGulf Coast, Mississippi
- trueHurricane Katrina, 2005
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMississippi
- trueMother-separated families
- trueRural poor -- Mississippi
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueTeenage pregnancy
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
Included in
- trueAlex Award: 2012
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2011
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2012
- trueRecommended by Molly Wyand
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