Doll Bones Holly Black

Doll Bones by Holly Black is an amazing book! I enjoyed reading it and I plan on using it for my future classroom. This book is both cute and creepy. It is a bit scary but not to the point where you would have to sleep with the lights on at night. This book reminds me a lot of Goosebumps stories, I read those a lot when I was in elementary school. This book is about three friends (Zach, poppy and Alice) who go on a journey to return a china doll( EVIL DOLL) that was made out of a little girls bones. The little girl’s name was Eleanor Kerchner and she died in 1895. The dolls hair was that same as the little girl’s hair and the little girls ashes were inside the china doll to fill her up. They had to put her to rest.

This book contains a lot of imagination. Which is good for the readers! These kids go through a lot of adventures and have both agreements and disagreements but they stay together the whole time. This is definitely a middle school book! We never really think about how scary it is before becoming a teenager and having to set aside our toys and venturing off into the unknown. Holly Black did and amazing job describing the characters, their adventures and last moments of being kids.