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Published Mar 2015
368 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps.
When young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren't surprised. But Finn knows what really happened to Roza. He knows she was kidnapped by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember.
As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a tale of the ways in which the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.
Michael Printz Award, 2016
"With rich characters, captivating world building, and a stunning secret at its heart, Bone Gap is utterly bewitching." - Booklist (starred review)
"Cleverly conceived, and lusciously written." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"The real magic in Bone Gap is the discovery of love, an idea many stories misrepresent but Bone Gap explores with the utmost honesty and truth." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review)
"Ruby's novel deserves to be read and reread. It is powerful, beautiful, extraordinary." - School Library Journal
"It's a novel about actual changes in worldview, and all its science and myth and realism and magic are marshaled, finally, to answer crucial questions about empathy and difference, and the way we see people we love." - New York Times Book Review
"Bone Gap marks Laura Ruby as one of fiction's most original voices. She is capable of moving you to tears, terrifying you on deep and dreamlike levels, and making your heart shout with happiness. This book is magic realism at its most magical." - E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars
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Laura Ruby is the author of books for adults, teens, and children, including Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All and the Michael L. Printz Medal winner Bone Gap, both National Book Award finalists; the Edgar Award nominee Lily's Ghosts; and the Book Sense Pick Good Girls as well as the first two books in the York Saga. She is on the faculty of Hamline University's MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area. You can visit her online at www.lauraruby.com.
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