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    Small Bones

    Written by Vicki Grant

    Narrated by Jules Price

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    About this audiobook

    Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams. But her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls hard for Eddie, a charming local boy who is equal parts helpful and distracting as Dot investigates her past. Searching for answers to questions about her birth, Dot learns more than she ever wanted to about the terrible effects of war, the legacy of deceit, and the enduring nature of lov
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers Audio
    Release dateSep 22, 2015
    ISBN9781459810990
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    Small Bones
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    Vicki Grant

    VICKI GRANT left her career in advertising and television to write her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She has written many books for young readers, including Not Suitable for Family Viewing, winner of the Red Maple Award, Quid Pro Quo, winner of the Author Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret, Pig Boy and B Negative. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Web: vickigrant.com Twitter: @VickiGrantYA Instagram: @vicki_grantya  

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    • 4/5
      We start off with a prologue, some time after midnight on the 9th of July 1947, a man driving in a car with a premature baby wrapped in a coat in the passenger's seat. He drops her off at the front door of an orphanage, knocks on the door, and escapes before he is seen.I was hooked from that moment on. We meet Dot, one of seven teenage girls from the orphanage sent out on their own in the world after the fire burns down the only home they've ever known. The book is a bit of a slow burn for a while, but the pace is important for understanding the characters, and the way things are in the small town of Buckminster, where Dot gets a job at a resort after leaving her town of Hope, where the orphanage was. She meets a charming boy, Eddie, and the romance there is sweet, and exciting, everything a young love is. Dot learns about the town ghost story, which inspires her to seek out her birth parents, and the book from then on becomes impossible to put down as the reader follows clues and attempts to solve the mystery. The truth about Dot's parents is a bittersweet one, and the ending is no different. Beautifully told and written.
    • 5/5
      Picked this up to read yesterday afternoon, and finished it before morning coffee today. It was a lovely trip to another time and was full of mystery and a little romance. I enjoyed reading this book from start to finish...especially the finish that just filled my heart to bursting.
    • 4/5
      When the orphanage she grew up in burns down, 16-year-old Dot is sent to make her own way with $138 in cash and some hand-me-down clothes. She also has the man's coat she was wrapped in when she was dropped at the orphanage and determines to go search out her father in the small town where the coat was made.
    • 5/5
      A cute fast read! little twists and turns throughout. An adorable little budding relationship. I absolutely enjoyed every bit of this book. It was realistic and the emotions were so true. Dot is flawed which makes her an absolutely perfect main character. Any girl Dot's age would have done what she did.
    • 5/5
      I received this ARC copy of this book through librarything.com early review giveaway and also to give a honest review for the book. I gave this book five stars because I really enjoyed it. It was a quick read for me and I couldn't put it down. I really found the characters amazing and I also love the setting of the time period of the book.
    • 5/5
      Although I'm 28 years old, I absolutely adored this YA story! Vicki Grant is a fantastic story teller who included the perfect mixture of innocence, mystery, and detail into this book. I loved the main character Dot and the supporting characters throughout the book. Each character was well-developed, realistic, and easy to visualize. The story kept my attention and was not predictable. As I read, I found myself making predictions which motivated me to finish this book in two days. I was pleasantly surprised by this book and look forward to recommending it to other YA readers.
    • 5/5
      I just fell in love with the main character of Dot, an orphan, who was told about her being left at the orphanage home in the middle of the night, the military coat she was wrapped in, with a silver crested mustard spoon, before being sent out to find her place in the world at age 17. After a few mishaps along the way, she gets a job as a seamstress at a summer camp and meets a young man, Eddie who befriends her. After hearing about a "legend" of a baby being born in the woods at the camp, Dot feels she was that baby and attempts to find out who her parents were. This book is a YA book, but I feel it should be for the older teen since it deals with some mature subjects. It was an engrossing story with mystery, a sweet romance and the ravages of WWII on some of the soldiers who returned, broken in body as well as mind and spirit. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, especially the ending and if the others in this series, called "Secrets", are as good, then the reader is in for a real treat!! Vicki Grant uses humor and some rather quirky characters to paint a realistic picture of teenage angst. I highly recommend this book and happy I received an advance copy.
    • 4/5
      We start off with a prologue, some time after midnight on the 9th of July 1947, a man driving in a car with a premature baby wrapped in a coat in the passenger's seat. He drops her off at the front door of an orphanage, knocks on the door, and escapes before he is seen.I was hooked from that moment on. We meet Dot, one of seven teenage girls from the orphanage sent out on their own in the world after the fire burns down the only home they've ever known. The book is a bit of a slow burn for a while, but the pace is important for understanding the characters, and the way things are in the small town of Buckminster, where Dot gets a job at a resort after leaving her town of Hope, where the orphanage was. She meets a charming boy, Eddie, and the romance there is sweet, and exciting, everything a young love is. Dot learns about the town ghost story, which inspires her to seek out her birth parents, and the book from then on becomes impossible to put down as the reader follows clues and attempts to solve the mystery. The truth about Dot's parents is a bittersweet one, and the ending is no different. Beautifully told and written.
    • 5/5
      I found myself quite engrossed with this story. Dot's journey from the Home into a world she has never experienced, fueled by tragedy and the hope that she may find some answers about her past, had me reading into the wee hours of the night. I already find myself wanting to read the other stories in the set.Over all, I found this to be a refreshingly different YA novel. Dot and those she encounters in the book are complicated and feel realistic. I think this would be an especially good choice for an older teen just starting to get into reading about more mature topics.
    • 3/5
      Part of a series of books about seven girls who are thrust out into the world when their orphanage burns down. In Small Bones, we meet Dot who is seeking her father based on the jacket she was found wrapped up in when she was left on the orphanage steps 17 years before. Dot travels to the small town of Buckminister and there finds more than she anticipated. A nice mystery and romance for younger teens.
    • 3/5
      I got an ARC of Small Bones awhile ago but I misplaced it. As soon as I found it I picked it up and read it. I am so happy that I finally found it and read it because it was good.I’m not exactly sure why, but for some reason I wasn’t expecting much from this book. I honestly have no idea why that is. Maybe that is why I liked it as much as I did. When I first finished it I gave it four stars, but as I started writing this review, I dropped it down to three.It was a fast read because I didn’t want to put it down. I wanted to know who Dots parents were and what happened the night she was born. I also loved Eddie. He was really funny and super adorable.Overall, I enjoyed this book and would love to read more by this author.
    • 5/5
      This author reminds me of Harper Lee. "Small Bones" by Vicki Grant is such a great read for 12+ audiences! An artful mystery unfolds in Buckminster, a cottage community where wealthy teens go to work and learn the value of a dollar. Written in first-person point of view we meet Dot a young seamstress whose life must change in order for her to have the dignity she deserves in life. Like stitches being unsewn, stitch by stitch, the story of Dot, an orphaned child and now grown teenager is revealed. Dot loses the only home she's ever known in search of one she can claim. Similar to Red Riding Hood on her journey, Dot meets characters who bring her closer to her fate while also discovering her first love, Eddie. First love is handled so innocently and tastefully and is embedded in Dot and Eddie’s sense of conflict, purpose and adventure unlike much fiction targeting 12+ audiences. It was refreshing to watch Dot grow and change in ways only deeper emotions can foster. What doesn't earn the suspended half star is that the connections between characters is fuzzy and somewhat weakly drawn. At times, the story reads like Grant couldn't make a clear antagonist choice and it becomes hard for a 12+ reader to maintain who's who during the resolution of the story. During the story resolution, a letter is included which deepens the story structure and laces loose ends up nicely for a young adult who may get lost in the story. I am looking forward to reading the other books in the “Secrets” series to see where they intersect and depart.