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Doll Bones
by Holly Black
• Three longtime friends enjoy playing a game where they imagine and act out elaborate storylines
• Recently, a china doll has factored into the game – she acts as the “queen,” ruling over the lands of the game
• Everything grinds to a halt when Zach’s father throws out the action figures he uses to play the game, saying that Zach is too old to play
• Zach is crushed, but doesn’t want to tell the other two the real reason why he can’t play, so he tells that that he just doesn’t want to anymore
• Zach is drawn back into the game when Poppy says that she had a dream about the queen – that she’s made out of the bones of a dead girl, and that they need to bury the doll in order for the girl to rest in peace
• So the three friends take one last adventure together, traveling by themselves to a town in Ohio in order to bury the doll.
• The part of the book where they’re on the road with the doll is very fast-paced – they keep running into obstacles that they need to get out of
• Then there’s the question of whether or not there’s a dead girl who is haunting the doll – did Poppy just make it all up in order to keep the friends together, or is there really a ghost?
• The ending is very satisfying, and leaves readers with the impression that maybe there is some unexplainable magic in the world. This is the kind of book that will stick with kids long after they’ve finished reading it.
• In addition to the fantastic story, the writing is great – includes lots of details that make it easy to fall into the world of the story.
• I loved this book and highly recommend it – I think that a ghost story would be an unusual choice for the Newbery, but I think it definitely has a shot!
• Recently, a china doll has factored into the game – she acts as the “queen,” ruling over the lands of the game
• Everything grinds to a halt when Zach’s father throws out the action figures he uses to play the game, saying that Zach is too old to play
• Zach is crushed, but doesn’t want to tell the other two the real reason why he can’t play, so he tells that that he just doesn’t want to anymore
• Zach is drawn back into the game when Poppy says that she had a dream about the queen – that she’s made out of the bones of a dead girl, and that they need to bury the doll in order for the girl to rest in peace
• So the three friends take one last adventure together, traveling by themselves to a town in Ohio in order to bury the doll.
• The part of the book where they’re on the road with the doll is very fast-paced – they keep running into obstacles that they need to get out of
• Then there’s the question of whether or not there’s a dead girl who is haunting the doll – did Poppy just make it all up in order to keep the friends together, or is there really a ghost?
• The ending is very satisfying, and leaves readers with the impression that maybe there is some unexplainable magic in the world. This is the kind of book that will stick with kids long after they’ve finished reading it.
• In addition to the fantastic story, the writing is great – includes lots of details that make it easy to fall into the world of the story.
• I loved this book and highly recommend it – I think that a ghost story would be an unusual choice for the Newbery, but I think it definitely has a shot!