| The Bone Sparrow Contributor(s): Fraillon, Zana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1484781511 ISBN-13: 9781484781517 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Australia & Oceania - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016002391 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.75" W x 8.55" (0.85 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship - Cultural Region - Australian - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 502113 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Indispensable." -- Booklist (starred review) Subhi is a refugee. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows. But every night, the faraway whales sing to him, the birds tell him their stories, and the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts. As Subhi grows, his imagination threatens to burst beyond the limits of the fences that contain him. Until one night, it seems to do just that. Subhi sees a scruffy girl on the other side of the wire mesh, a girl named Jimmie, who appears with a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it herself, Jimmie asks Subhi to unravel her family's love songs and tragedies that are penned there. Subhi and Jimmie might both find comfort -- and maybe even freedom-as their tales unfold. But not until each has been braver than ever before and made choices that could change everything. |