Bone by Bone |
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| Author:
| Johnston, Tony |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921351-62-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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A beautifully written 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...
More Description A beautifully written 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.
And Malcolm is black.
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.