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The Marrow Thieves

Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize
Winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award
Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award

Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young Adult Literature

Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams.

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden - but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

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Published May 10, 2017

240 pages

Average rating: 7.46

67 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

glinglin
Dec 12, 2024
10/10 stars
Really well written and touching novel.
Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
8/10 stars
Sometimes stories don't need a resolution.
No happy endings here.
I miss reading dystopian.
spookyreading
May 03, 2024
10/10 stars
Please, God, read this.
margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
Dimaline creates a world just close enough to our modern world to make it very believable. She also captures the Anishinaabe voice just as I hear it in northern Wisconsin. This story of Frances and a rag tag group of indigenous survivors are running and hiding to escape capture and death in order to restore dreams too the white people. Lots of violence described, but it fits the story and setting.

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