Doll Bones

Doll Bones by Holly Black

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Doll Bones by Holly Black was the perfect middle school read.  The story has that “scary” element that most middle schoolers just love.  Doll Bones begins with 3 friends, Poppy, Zach, and Alice (who have been friends forever) in the middle of a make-believe adventure.  They like to play with action figures and make up elaborate stories surrounding the characters the action figures represent.  The problem is they are getting older, and some people (like Zach’s dad and basketball team) think that maybe he is getting too old for this sort of thing.  But, then a real-life quest presents itself.  Poppy has been having mysterious dreams about an antique bone-china doll that is locked in the family cabinet.  They call the doll “the Queen.”  In the dream, the ghost of the girl whose ashes reside in the doll communicates to Poppy that her spirit cannot rest until she is buried in the proper grave.  So, the three begin an adventure where nearly everything goes wrong, and the doll convinces them of her ghostly presence.  The cover could have more male appeal rather than the doll because I think boys would like the book as well as girls.      



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