Salvage the Bones

Reassures Esch that her baby will have “plenty of daddies.”

• Rico

• Skeetah

• Daddy

• Big Henry

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Finds Daddy’s wedding ring (and his fingers) and tries to hide it.

• Esch

• Junior

• Randall

• Skeetah

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Cousin of Manny owns the dog that fought her on Day Eight.

• Rico

• Marquise

• Big Henry

• Kilo

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Loses the basketball scholarship because his family was fighting in the stands.

• Manny

• Randall

• Skeetah

• Marquise

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The novel ends with Skeetah looking for her – positive that she will come back to him.

• Mama

• Esch

• China

• The puppy

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Throughout the novel, he is the most apprehensive about the approaching storm

• Big Henry

• Daddy

• Randall

• Junior

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Taught the children how to find eggs in the woods.

• Daddy

• Randall

• Esch

• Mama

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The first to sexually abuse Esch.

• Rico

• Manny

• Marquise

• Big Henry

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Believes that “everything deserves to live,” and “everything deserves a chance”.

• Junior

• Skeetah

• Esch

• Mama

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sat listening to Junior swishing around inside Mama’s belly during the last hurricane.

• Daddy

• Randall

• Esch

• Skeetah

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3