The marrow thieves

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The work The marrow thieves represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Westfield Washington Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The marrow thieves

Statement of responsibility

Cherie Dimaline

Creator

• Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
• trueDimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Author

• Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Subject

• trueCanada
• Bone marrow
• trueBone marrow
• Bone marrow -- Fiction
• Bone marrow -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCanadian fiction
• trueDreams
• Dreams
• Dreams -- Fiction
• Dreams -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• Fiction
• trueFirst Nations (Canada)
• Global warming
• Global warming -- Fiction
• Global warming -- Juvenile fiction
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America -- Fiction
• Indians of North America -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueNative American teenage boys
• truePost-apocalypse
• trueProcurement of organs, tissues, etc
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc -- Fiction
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc -- Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueTeenage boy orphans
• trueTeenage boys
• trueApocalyptic fiction

Genre

• trueScience fiction
• Juvenile works
• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueCanadian fiction
• trueApocalyptic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones, and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing 'factories.'"--

Theme

• trueBand of survivors
• trueClimate change apocalypse

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueCompelling

Character

• trueCulturally diverse
• trueComplex

Award

• Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2018.
• Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Children's Literature, 2017
• Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, 2017.
• OLA Best Bets, 2017
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2017
• Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2018.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018.

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

jC813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.D5954

LC item number

Ma 2017

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

810

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Target audience

adolescent