Rating: Recommended
Roaring Brook, 2007, $17.95
ISBN: 1-59643-113-X
Age/Grade Level: Grades 7-12
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Bone by Bone by Bone is as good as good is good. Taut writing quickens the "don't put this book down" pace. A provoking, suspenseful plot set in 1940s Tennessee delivers characters of knotted humaness. David, the son of a Southern doctor, befriends a young black boy, Malcolm. Daddy warns "…Play like hell---outside. But he can never set foot in this house. Rule's real simple : you ever let that n***** in, by God, I'll shoot him." David and Malcolm, though boys, become acquainted with the anatomy of prejudice. Many questions are left unanswered, and characters are not fully resolved, but this adds credence to the complexity of this filling story.
Reviewer: Rebecca Porter, Orange County Public Library/Laguna Beach Branch
Roaring Brook, 2007, $17.95
ISBN: 1-59643-113-X
Age/Grade Level: Grades 7-12
View this book on Amazon
Bone by Bone by Bone is as good as good is good. Taut writing quickens the "don't put this book down" pace. A provoking, suspenseful plot set in 1940s Tennessee delivers characters of knotted humaness. David, the son of a Southern doctor, befriends a young black boy, Malcolm. Daddy warns "…Play like hell---outside. But he can never set foot in this house. Rule's real simple : you ever let that n***** in, by God, I'll shoot him." David and Malcolm, though boys, become acquainted with the anatomy of prejudice. Many questions are left unanswered, and characters are not fully resolved, but this adds credence to the complexity of this filling story.
Reviewer: Rebecca Porter, Orange County Public Library/Laguna Beach Branch
