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Bone's Gift

by Angie Smibert
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Twelve-year-old Bone possesses a Gift that allows her to see the stories in everyday objects in this supernatural historical mystery. The first title in a series — now in paperback!
In southern Virginia coal-mining town in 1942, Bone Phillips has just reached the age when most members of her family discover their Gift. Bone has a Gift that disturbs her; she can sense stories when she touches an object that was important to someone. She sees both sad and happy—the death of a deer in an arrowhead, the pain of a beating in a baseball cap, and the sense of joy in a fiddle. There are also stories woven into her dead mama's butter—yellow sweater—stories Bone yearns for and fears. When Bone receives a note that says her mama's Gift is what killed her, Bone tries to uncover the truth. Could Bone's Gift do the same? Here is a beautifully resonant coming-of-age tale about learning to trust the power of your own story.

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  • Release date

    March 20, 2018

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781684371365
      • File size: 1249 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781684371365
      • File size: 1249 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.7
    • Lexile® Measure: 700
    • Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2018
      A 12-year-old Appalachian girl tries to come to terms with her supernatural gift at the start of World War II.Sometimes, when Laurel Grace--usually known as Bone--touches an object, she can get a glimpse of its past. When she picked up her friend Will's father's dinner bucket, she was flooded with memories of his death in a mining accident a decade before. When she wears her mother's yellow sweater she feels Mama's loving touch, smells her lavender scent. Mama died of influenza six years ago, and now, with Daddy drafted into the Army, she's being made to live with Mama's sister, Aunt Mattie, who sees the family gifts as curses and wants to pray Bone's out of her. But why? Smibert surrounds Bone with a loving, complicated extended family and gives her plot just enough heft for both realism and reader engagement. The coal-field setting is particularly well-drawn, with details such as children at play sliding down a slag heap instead of a snowdrift. Feed-sack dresses aren't a cliche here, and neither is Smibert's language, which feels real and down-to-earth, like her characters. "The morning wore on like a sermon on a hot day." Only the ending, which sets up a three-volume series, lacks punch, but that won't keep readers from wanting to revisit. An intriguing blend of history and magic. (Historical/paranormal fiction. 8-14)

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    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2018
      When twelve-year-old Bone, a spunky storyteller, picks up an object, she experiences its history and relives scenes from its owner's past. As Bone explores this "Gift," she searches for stories--and the truth--about her mother's death. Set in Appalachia coal-mining country during WWII, Smibert's blend of history, folklore, mystery, and fantasy is a riveting start to a planned series.

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.7
  • Lexile® Measure:700
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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