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Salvage the bones : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

Salvage the bones : a novel / 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 anda dying litter of prize pups.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781608195220
  • ISBN: 1608195228
  • Physical Description: 261 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
890L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 13 152039.
Awards Note:
National Book Award Winner, 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.

Available copies

  • 22 of 23 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nevada Public Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 23 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Nevada Public Library FIC WAR (Text) 32770114448269 Adult Fiction Available -


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