The marrow thieves

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The work The marrow thieves represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). 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

• trueDimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Author

• trueDimaline, Cherie, 1975-

Subject

• Dystopian fiction
• Bone marrow -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCanada
• trueDreams
• Dreams
• Dreams -- Fiction
• Dreams -- Juvenile 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 -- Juvenile fiction
• Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueTeenage boy orphans
• trueTeenage boys
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• trueBone marrow
• Bone marrow
• Bone marrow -- Fiction

Genre

• Young adult works
• Young adult fiction
• Science fiction
• Juvenile works
• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Dystopian 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.'"--

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueBleak

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueCompelling

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

Literary form

novels

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

• 8
• 12

Target audience

juvenile