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Bone by BoneAuthor: Tony JohnstonPrice: $22.95 ISBN: 9781921351624 Imprint: Text Publishing Binding: Pbk Stock: In stock at the publisher and usually ships by us in 7 - 10 days. Allow a few extra days for delivery Featured in the August, 2008 magazine Add this book to your reading list |
  
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Publisher's synopsis:A tale of childhood friendship in America's deep south, in the tradition of To Kill A Mocking Bird.
David is nine. He knows all the bones. When he was born, his father Dr Franklin Church hung a skeleton in his room and taught him the names, bone by bone by bone. David is going to be a doctor like his father. David's best friend is Malcolm. Malcolm knows the bone names too. But this is Tennessee in the 1950s-the deep south of America, and a time of brutal racial intolerance and tension. It's the territory of the Ku Klux Klan. Drawing on her own childhood memories, Tony Johnston brings us a universal story of the innocent purity of friendship amidst the bone-chilling horror of racism. Category:Fiction General Fiction |
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