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ISBN: 1416963987

ISBN13: 9781416963981

Doll Bones

By Holly Black

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Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor's Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book. A NYPL "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing." A 2013 Goodreads Choice award nominee. A People Magazine "Best New Kids Book." Six starred reviews!

Winner of a 2014 Newbery Honor Medal.

Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they've been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her.

But they are in middle school now. Zach's father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she's been having dreams about the Queen--and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave.

Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay the Queen's ghost to rest. But nothing goes according to plan, and as their adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen. Is the doll just a doll or something more sinister? And if there really is a ghost, will it let them go now that it has them in its clutches?

Doll Bones is a winner of the Newbery Honor, is the recipient of six starred reviews, was on four Best Book lists, and was called "perfect" by The New York Times.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1416963987

ISBN13:9781416963981

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Margaret K. McElderry Books

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Age Range:10 to 14 years

Grade Range:Grades 5 to 9

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Children's Children's Books Fantasy Fiction Newbery Award Winners Science Fiction & Fantasy Teen & Young Adult

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By Thriftbooks.com User, June 18, 2016

Okay, so this book may be a bit creepy... but it's well worth reading! These three kids go on an extraordinary journey to return a precious doll where she belongs. It starts out as a playful fantasy game between three best friends. Zach loses the main player and doesn't know how to tell Poppy and Alice, so he just blows it off. The girls think that they should have one final game by giving the Queen, a china doll restricted...

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