Picked Apart the Bones Young Adult Fiction Tony and his friends find

Tony and his friends find themselves in trilobite trouble

A powerful and mysterious force gives Johnny the gift of time travel and takes him back to important moments in Chickasaw and First American history

Thompson’s birth coincided with the United States efforts to dismantle tribal governments

Cooke also chronicles the reestablishment of the Chickasaw Nation’s Lighthorse Police as a cutting-edge law enforcement department

as written by her son

Picked Apart the Bones Young Adult Fiction Tony and his friends findChickasaw writer Rebecca Hatcher Travis bases the poems in her exquisite first collection on memories of life in her family and on the Oklahoma landscapes and scenes that surrounded her as a child. Her poems also serve as testimonies to the First American ancestors who have passed on to the next life. Picked Apart the Bones won the 2006 First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.