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Title:
Salvage the bones : a novel
Author:
Ward, Jesmyn.
ISBN:
9781608195220
Personal Author:
Ward, Jesmyn.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

Bloomsbury,

2011.
Physical Description:
261 pages ; 22 cm
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
890 Lexile.

890L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 13.0 152039.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 13 152039.
Subject Term:
African American children -- Fiction.

African American children.

African American teenage girls -- Fiction.

African American teenage girls.

Siblings -- Fiction.

Siblings.

Motherless families -- Fiction.

Motherless families.

African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.

African American families.

Rural poor -- Mississippi -- Fiction.

Rural poor.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Mississippi.

Gulf Coast (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

Novels.
Publication Date:
2011
AR Level:
5.3