| Description |
326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
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Age level: age Children |
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Age level: age Preteens |
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Educational level group: edu Fourth grade students |
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Educational level group: edu Fifth grade students |
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Educational level group: edu Sixth grade students |
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Educational level group: edu Seventh grade students |
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Educational level group: edu Eighth grade students |
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Educational level group: edu Middle school students |
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Educational level group: edu School children |
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age Children |
| Summary |
In 1854 eleven-year-old Bones is a slave in Virginia who sends a bottle holding her real name and a trinket from her long-lost father down the James River--the currents carry it far away, ultimately uniting the lives of three young girls. |
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This middle-grade historical novel follows three young girls living very different lives who are connected by one bottle that makes two journeys across the ocean. It's 1854 and eleven-year-old Bones is a slave on a Virginia plantation. When she finds her name in the slave-record book, she rips it out, rolls it up, and sets it free, corked inside a bottle alongside the carved peach pit heart her long-lost father made for her. Across the Atlantic on the Isle of Wight, motherless Lady Bess Kent and her sister discover Bones's bottle half-buried on the beach. Leaving Bones's name where it began and keeping the peach pit for herself, Bess hides her mother's pearl encrusted cross necklace in the bottles so her scheming stepmother, Elsie, can't sell it off like she's done with other family heirlooms. When Harry, a local stonemason's son, takes the fall for Elsie's thefts, Bess works with her seafaring friend, Chap, to help him escape. She gives the bottle to Harry and tells him to seel the cross. Back across the Atlantic in Boston, Mary Margaret Casey and her father are father are at the docks when Mary Margaret spies something shiny. Her father fishes it out of the water, and they use the cross to pay for a much needed doctor's visit for Mary Margaret's ailing sister. As Bess did, Mary Margaret leaves Bones's name where it belongs. An epilogue briefly returns to each girl, completing the circle of the three unexpectedly interconnected lives. -- From amazon.com. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326). |
| Audience |
860L lexile |
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Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 3 (medium) Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 5.5 9.0. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo |
| Subject |
Brewster, Bones (Fictitious character) |
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Kent, BEss (Fictitious character) |
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Casey, Mary Margaret (Fictitious character) |
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African American girls -- Virginia -- Juvenile fiction.
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African American girls. |
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Virginia. |
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Enslaved persons -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
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Enslaved persons. |
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United States. |
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Slavery -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
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Slavery. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Identity (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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| ISBN |
9781580896481 (reinforced for library use) |
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1580896480 (reinforced for library use) |
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9781607348634 (ebook) |
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9781607349006 (ebook pdf) |
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