Zack, Poppy and Alice are regular kids who enjoy playing an ongoing game of imagination featuring pirates, mermaids, treasure and more. But they wonder if their imagination has gotten out of hand when Poppy explains that a (creepy!) antique porcelain doll in her mother’s house is the ghost of a dead girl who wants to be buried with her family in the next town. The book includes a realistic view of the worries three teens might have when traveling without parental permission. And secrets between the three make things worse, so the book doesn’t have fun magic of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Still, the spooky overtone of Doll Bones has its own appeal.
Author: Holly Black
Ages: 9 – 12
Main character(s): Two girls and one boy
Part of a series: no
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