Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2011
Word Count 85,559
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 152039, 13.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Gulf Coast (Miss.)
- African American families
- Rural poor
- Fiction | Literary
- Brothers and sisters
- Mississippi
- African American children--Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction
- African American families--Mississippi--Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Motherless families--Fiction
- Motherless families
- Rural poor--Mississippi--Fiction
- African American children
- African American teenage girls--Fiction
- Brothers and sisters--Fiction
- African American teenage girls
- Gulf Coast (Miss.)--Fiction
Our Original Resources 3
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Author Interviews 2
Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Created by Bloomsbury USA
Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Created by NPR
Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 3
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Reading Group Guide from Oprah
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Book Readings 2
Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Cherise Boothe
Created by Recorded Books
Video Book Reading narrated by Jesmyn Ward
Created by National Book Foundation
Awards & Distinctions 2
Alex Awards, 1998-2022
Winner, 2012
Indies Choice Book Awards, 2009-2019
Honor, 2012
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