![]() All her characters are three dimensional, not props only there to push the story forward. On the venture that follows, Zach, Alice and Poppy band together through squabbles and scares to lay a ghost to rest.īlack creates compelling characters. ![]() In their effort to tempt him back to the game, Poppy and Alice risk more than just a parental scolding when they steal the coveted fine-bone porcelain doll from her glass cabinet – something inside the doll is ready to come out and play. Zach, devastated and embarrassed, cannot face telling his friends why he can’t play anymore. When his sometimes-estranged father comes back into his life looking for a meaningful way to contribute to the family dynamic, he takes irreparable action against Zach’s ‘unmanly’ playtime pursuits. ![]() Zach particularly feels torn between his facade as a popular basketball player and the fun of their childhood games. But they are growing into teens, and keeping up with the game is getting in the way of more mature pursuits. Zach, Poppy and Alice are best friends, a friendship which feeds on the worlds created in a role-playing saga of pirates, queens and quests. In this middle-grade fantasy by Holly Black, Doll Bones delivers a bittersweet combination of friendship, growing up and the price of story weaving. ![]() ![]() They say nobody does spooky like Holly Black. ![]()
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