# Bone Gap

**Author:** Laura Ruby
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 268
**ISBN-13:** `9780571332762`
**ISBN-10:** `0571332765`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/bone-gap
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps - gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza goes missing, the people of Bone Gap aren't surprised. After all, it isn't the first time someone's slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own. Finn knows that's not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he cannot remember. But no one believes him anymore. Well, not quite no one. Petey Willis, the beekeeper's daughter, suspects that lurking behind Finn's self-loathing is a story worth uncovering. And as we, like Petey, follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap - their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures - the truth abo

## Where this book is assigned

### Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2015 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2015 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2015 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2015 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)

### Michael L. Printz Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Michael L. Printz Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Printz Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Printz_Award)

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 1 state: FL. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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