![]() ![]() ![]() Angry with his father and embarrassed that he cares so much about action figures, Zach ends the game and refuses to tell his friends why he doesn’t want to play anymore. ![]() However, the fun ends when Zach’s father throws out all of his action figures, including William the Blade. Zach and Alice are questing aboard the ship Neptune’s Pearl, encountering monsters and dangers along the way. ![]() Poppy runs the game, playing the ruthless Great Queen and other villains, while Zach plays William the Blade and Alice plays Lady Jayne. As Doll Bones begins, three kids-Zach Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell-play a macabre role-playing game they invented and act out with action figures. Praised for its moody horror visuals and complex plot, as well as its well-developed characters, Doll Bones is considered one of Black’s most effective works. It was named a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 2014, the same year it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. Exploring themes of abandonment, friendship, mortality, adolescence, coming of age, and the nature of change, Doll Bones quickly became a quick best seller and one of the most critically acclaimed young adult novels of recent years. This gothic fantasy follows a trio of preteens that get caught up in a supernatural conspiracy when their role-playing game turns into a quest to return a haunted doll to a gravesite in a nearby town. Doll Bones (2013) is a young adult fantasy novel by American author Holly Black, with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler. ![]()
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