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Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
Subjects
Global warming -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Bone marrow -- Transplantation -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Fiction.
Governor General's Award.
Burt Award.
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Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
Global warming -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Bone marrow -- Transplantation -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Fiction.
Governor General's Award.
Burt Award.
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The marrow thieves (book club kit -
fiction
) / Cherie Dimaline.
by
Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
Dancing Cat Books, 2017.
Call #:
BOOK CLUB KIT DIM
Subjects
Global warming
--
Fiction
.
Dreams
--
Fiction
.
Bone marrow
--
Transplantation
--
Fiction
.
Indigenous
peoples
--
America
--
Fiction
.
Governor General's Award.
Burt Award.
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Information kit for The Marrow Thieves
ISBN:
9781770864863 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Book club kit : The marrow thieves
Bookclub kit : The marrow thieves
Description:
9 books, 180 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Holds can be placed via Ask a Librarian. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.
Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 9 copies of Cherie Dimaline's "The Marrow Thieves", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans.
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.'"--From publisher.
Audience:
Ages: 14 - 17.
Awards:
Winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Young Adult Literature (First Prize), 2018.
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature (English: text), 2017.
Genre:
Futuristic
fiction
.
Dystopian
fiction
.
Science
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
Book Club Kit.
Other authors:
HPL Readers Services.
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