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Heart Bones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Assess Beyah’s reaction when she finds her mother dead with a needle still in her arm. What about Beyah’s life and experience makes her able to leave her home, community, and state so quickly?

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Is Beyah a character you root for? Why or why not? What traits and actions make Beyah sympathetic, and which ones make her harder to support?

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How are the differences in social class and the realities of life in poverty reflected through the characters of Sara and Beyah?

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