Teacher Guide

Salvage the Bones Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

For other works by Ward, please see: Where the Line Bleeds (2008), Men We Reaped (2013), The Fire This Time (2016) and Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)

For more novels about Katrina: The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst; Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum; Blink of an Eye by Rexanne Becnel; Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee Burke; Storm Surge: A Novel of Hurricane Katrina by Ramsey Coutta; Lost and Betrayed (An American Tale): A Fictional Tale of Hurricane Katrina by Sly Fleming; A Little Bit Ruined by Patty Friedmann; and Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi

For non-fiction books on Katrina: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose; Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin; Come...

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