Title Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Publication Info.	New York, NY ; London, UK : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012.
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Location	Call No.	Status
Simsbury Public Library - Teen	TEEN WARD, JESMYN	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	F-WARD	Check Shelf

Edition	Paperback edition.
Description	271 pages ; 21 cm
Indexed In:	Wilson's Fiction, January 2012
	Library Journal Starred, August 2011
	Pub Weekly, May 2011
	Booklist, August 2011
	Kirkus Starred, December 2011
	New York Times, January 2012
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.
Audience	Adult Follett Library Resources.
Awards	Alex Award, 2012
Audience	Adult.
Indexed In:	Wilson's Fiction
	Library Journal Starred
	Pub Weekly
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.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 13 SD Quiz 152039 English fiction.
Subject	Hurricane Katrina (2005) (OCoLC)fst01755264
	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.
	African American children. (OCoLC)fst00799071
	African American families. (OCoLC)fst00799152
	African American teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst00799399
	Brothers and sisters. (OCoLC)fst00839671
	Motherless families. (OCoLC)fst01026939
	Rural poor. (OCoLC)fst01101743
	Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
	Mississippi -- Gulf Coast. (OCoLC)fst01270973
Chronological Term	2005
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN	9781608196265 (paperback)
	1608196267 (paperback)
	9781608196272 (ePub)

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