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.
