# Brick Dust and Bones

**Author:** M.R. Fournet
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 247
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781250876027`
**ISBN-10:** `1250876028`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/brick-dust-and-bones
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Twelve-year-old Marius Grey is a Cemetery Boy who tends the ghosts in his family's New Orleans graveyard — but he secretly hunts monsters for the mystic coins he needs to bring his late mother back from the dead before her window to return closes. M.R. Fournet's atmospheric grades 6-8 fantasy is a 2025-2026 Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Florida) nominee.

## Themes

- courage
- family
- perseverance

## Where this book is assigned

### Sunshine State Young Readers Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)

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