Doll Bones

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.

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781416963981
Age: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 158353 / Doll Bones


Award: Nene Award - Nominee
Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Award: Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Colorado Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Nene Award - Nominee
Award: California Young Reader Medal - Nominee
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Award: William Allen White Childens Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2013 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Shelf Awareness 05/10/2013
New York Times Book Review 05/12/2013 pg. 24
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2013 pg. 454 - Book Of Special Distinction
School Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 112
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2013 pg. 122
People Weekly 08/12/2013 pg. 67
PW Best Children's Books 11/11/2013 pg. 24
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2013 pg. 70
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2013 pg. 35
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2014 pg. 15
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 pg. 69 - Superior,Well Above Average
BookPage 05/01/2013

About the Author
Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of speculative and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics. She has been a finalist for an Eisner and a Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. She has sold over twenty-six million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. Visit her at BlackHolly.com.