Doll bones

This was a nice quick listen while I wasn't able to read my other book.

This was so cute and fun with a dash of creepy. Definitely recommended!

I loved it. I am also happy it's not as scary as I thought it was going to be.

I rather liked this. Early teens friend group dealing with puberty and growing up while holding onto the love of the fantastical which drew them together. Also an adventure journey and ghost story, and the librarian had pink hair + fancy yellow shoes.

Half listened to, half read. The pictures are wonderful.

This is very squarely a middle grades book. It is creepy without being too creepy, grisly without being too grisly and it had heart and hope and friendship too. Hurrah!

Never does Black confirm anything. Nothing is ever overtly ‘magic' or proven. It could be overactive imaginations of three 11 year old kids or it could be that the doll harbored a honest to goodness ghost. But what the story does do is offer that little slice of hope. Imagination is the greatest gift we have to give and the richest we are with this gift is when we are children. Then as we begin to grow older having an imagination and using it becomes something we outgrow. But here while they may be growing up and outgrowing toys, they are not giving up their imaginations.

I think this is just on the borderline of too-scary-for-my-7-year-old. She's read the first 5 Harry Potter books and done great, but this book has just enough creepy in it to possibly get her freaked out. Maybe a couple more years and we'll be ready for some Holly Black.

Ooh so good and spooky! I loved the characterization of the three kids. Yay for friendship (and fighting, cuz junior high is hard, but still: friendship!)

IDK what to say, this came out recently but it feels like everyone already read it. By “everyone” I mean youth librarians. Anyway, a good book for tweens and librarians and dolls. Scary but not TOO scary. I don't think.

This book should get 5 stars just for having kids smart enough to go to the library to sort out their quest...but I would have given 5 stars anyway because it is GREAT. I'm not sure how the target audience is going to respond, but I read this in awe. It's a love song to imaginative kids who spend their days creating fantasy worlds (like me!), who march to their own drummer, and the parents who don't understand them. It's a quest before the story has to end (rotten maturity!) I'm a little worried that the blurbs on the cover are going to scare off readers who do not like scary stuff. This story is not really scary. It's not nightmare inducing. There is a little bit of spookiness. Highly, highly recommended.