Doll Bones [Paperback]

Discover the Newbery Honor winnerDoll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. AKirkus ReviewsBest Book. ASchool Library JournalBest Book. ABooklistEditor’s Choice Books for Youth. APublishers WeeklyBest Children’s Book. A NYPL “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.” APeople Magazine“Best New Kids Book.” Six starred reviews!

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 Bonesis a winner of the Newbery Honor, is the recipient of six starred reviews, was on five Best Book lists, and was called “perfect” byThe New York Times. A little bit scary and full of heart, this story grabbed me and wouldn't let go. Nobody does spooky like Holly Black.Doll Bonesis a book that will make you sleep with the lights on. Tightly focused, realistic tale—bladed with a hint of fairy-tale darkness.... Stories about the importance of stories...don’t come much more forthright and affecting than this one. Every encounter redraws l“ˆ