To the Bone
Penguin Young Readers Group · Hardcover · September 10, 2024
This gripping, shocking, and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America's colonial history in a powerful new way—visceral and breathtaking.
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- Who it’s for
- A survival story that pairs colonial history’s cruelties with an unsettling, intimate sense of danger.
- Genres
- YA Horror, YA LGBTQ+, US Historical YA
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, September 10, 2024
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This gripping, shocking, and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America's colonial history in a powerful new way—visceral and breathtaking. After the long journey from England, Ellis arrives in America full of hope. James Fort is where a better life will begin for her: where she will work as an indentured servant to Henry Collins and his pregnant wife, gain financial security, and fall deeply in love with bold, glorious Jane Eddowes.
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But as summer turns to fall, Ellis begins to notice the cracks in this new life—the viciousness of the colonists toward the Indigenous people and the terrifying anger Henry uses to control his wife and Ellis—leaving her to wonder if she has sentenced herself to a prison rather than a new home. Then winter arrives and hunger grips the Fort. Ellis is about to learn that people will do whatever it takes to survive. To the Bone is a riveting story of survival and horror that forcefully overturns the mythos of the American settler. It will stay with you, forever.
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A survival story that pairs colonial history’s cruelties with an unsettling, intimate sense of danger.
Come here for
- Colonial history without the settler myth, rendered as visceral survival horror
- A forbidden-feeling romance amid hunger, control, and danger
Expect
- A stark look at violence against Indigenous people and abuse within the Fort
- Hunger and fear steadily complicate Ellis’s hope for a new life
Where it sits
| YA Horror | 58% |
|---|---|
| US Historical YA | 47% |
| YA LGBTQ+ | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- US Historical YA
- YA Horror
- YA LGBTQ+
- Authors
- Alena Bruzas
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- September 10, 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- US Historical YA