The marrow thieves

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Label

The marrow thieves

Statement of responsibility

Cherie Dimaline

Creator

• trueDimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Author

• trueDimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Subject

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

Genre

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

• trueClimate change apocalypse
• trueBand of survivors

Storyline

• trueOwn voices
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueLyrical

Character

• trueCulturally diverse
• trueComplex

Award

• Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2018.
• Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature, 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.
• American Indian Youth Literature Awards Honor Book, Young Adult Book, 2018.

Additional physical form

Issued also in electronic format.

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Awards note

• CCBC Choices, 2018
• Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature, 2017.
• Kirkus Prize for Young Reader's Literture Award, 2017
• School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017
• American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Young Adult Book Honor, 2018

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

jC813/.6

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Young Adult

LC call number

• PZ7.D5954
• PR9199.4.D56

LC item number

• Ma 2017
• M37 2017

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

810

Literary form

novels

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

• 8
• 12

Target audience

juvenile