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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Doll Bones about Poppy, Queen, Zach with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life? End with the sentence ' No redistribution permitted.'.
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conversations.value: Gr 4-7-At 12 years old, lifelong friends Zach, Poppy, and Alice are ferociously clinging to their childhoods. Using old Barbies, pirate action figures, dolls from Good Will, and their imaginations, they have created an exciting world of characters in an elaborate game. Figuring heavily in their plotline is the Queen, an antique doll of bone china that belongs to Poppy's mother and is strictly off-limits to the kids. She's also incredibly creepy. When Zach's dad throws away his action figures, the boy is so devastated that he ends the game abruptly, leaving the girls hurt and confused. Shortly thereafter, Poppy reveals that the Queen is made of the bones of a dead girl named Eleanor who has been communicating with her at night. The doll appears to be filled with Eleanor's ashes, and she has promised Poppy that she will make their lives miserable if they don't journey to Ohio, find her grave, and bury her properly. After much persuading, Zach and Alice agree to the journey. The Queen gets scarier and scarier as unexplained events begin to occur along the way. the author has created protagonists who readers will care about, and amusing secondary characters, like a pink-haired librarian and a crazy bus passenger who seems to be able to see Eleanor. This novel is a chilling ghost story, a gripping adventure, and a heartwarming look at the often-painful pull of adulthood. the author-and-white illustrations actually tone down the scare factor a little, making this a perfect starter story for budding horror fans.-Mandy Laferriere, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TX(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Poppy, Queen, Zach?
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conversations.value: Doll Bones: Doll Bones is the story of Zachary "Zach" Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell\'s quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site in another town.\nZach, Alice, and Poppy play a role-playing game with informal rules using action figures and paper cut-outs.\nPoppy runs the game which involves Zach\'s character "William the Blade" and Alice\'s character "Lady Jayne" on a quest for the Great Queen aboard William\'s sailing ship, Neptune\'s Pearl.\nOne day Zach discovers that his father has thrown out all of his action figures including William, effectively ending the game.\nFurious at his father, and embarrassed that he cares so much about a "kid\'s game", Zach decides not to tell Alice and Poppy what happened and instead says he just does not want to play anymore.\nZach is woken in the middle of the night by Alice and Poppy who tell him that Poppy has had a dream that the "Great Queen" (an antique doll her mother keeps locked in a glass cabinet that the kids use for the game) and that the doll is made from the bones and ashes of a dead girl named Eleanor Kerchner who is now a ghost and wants to be returned to her proper grave.\nThe three kids leave notes for their parents and take a night bus to East Liverpool, Ohio (a few hour\'s bus ride away) hoping to return the following evening to avoid discovery.\nOn the bus they are accosted by a man named Tinshoe Jones who seems to see the doll as a real person and warns them that the bus driver talks with aliens who "change people faces".\nThe bus makes a stop in East Rochester, PA and the children flee when it appears the bus driver and station attendant intend to capture them.\nThey spend the night in a small park near the Ohio river and during the night their meager supplies are inexplicably torn apart and ruined.\nThey enter a donut shop with exotic flavored donuts and the shopkeeper offers the "hungry blond girl" (the doll) a Pepto Bismol flavored donut.\nThey argue about the quest, but, still hoping to catch the bus back home in time, decide to continue the quest if possible by walking to East Liverpool.\nThe quest seems to end, however, when they find themselves on the banks of a tributary river flowing into the Ohio.\nAlice is ready to return home, but Poppy, realizing both Alice and Zach have secrets, blackmails them into continuing the quest.\nThey steal a small sailboat named "Pearl" and clumsily sail their way to East Liverpool.\nAngry, wet, disheartened, and now late for the bus, the three argue again and Poppy reveals that Alice loves Zach and wants to date him.\nNow angry and awkward, they enter town and find a diner where the attendant also seems to see the doll as a person.\nThey find a map of town and break into the closed library where they research the cemetery and inadvertently spend the night when they all fall asleep.\nThey are woken by Miss Katherine, a young, pink-haired librarian who locks them in a break room and makes them call their respective parents and guardians.\nThe doll, however, is missing, and they resolve to break free, find the doll, and complete the quest.\nZach finds the doll in a ladies\' restroom in the basement near a display of Lukas Kerchner\'s exotic pottery and learns about Eleanor\'s father and her mysterious disappearance.\nFleeing the librarian the children steal two bikes and go to the cemetery where they look in vain for the willow tree that should mark the grave.\nFrustrated, Zach tells the girls the truth about the action figures and runs off into the cemetery where he lies down and sobs uncontrollably.\nThe girls find him sitting by the stone of the Kerchner family which has a willow carved into it.\nThey bury the doll and then walk to meet their respective guardians at the gate to the cemetery while promising to one another to keep the Story alive.
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conversations.value: Doll Bones: Doll Bones is the story of Zachary "Zach" Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell\'s quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site in another town.\nZach, Alice, and Poppy play a role-playing game with informal rules using action figures and paper cut-outs.\nPoppy runs the game which involves Zach\'s character "William the Blade" and Alice\'s character "Lady Jayne" on a quest for the Great Queen aboard William\'s sailing ship, Neptune\'s Pearl.\nOne day Zach discovers that his father has thrown out all of his action figures including William, effectively ending the game.\nFurious at his father, and embarrassed that he cares so much about a "kid\'s game", Zach decides not to tell Alice and Poppy what happened and instead says he just does not want to play anymore.\nZach is woken in the middle of the night by Alice and Poppy who tell him that Poppy has had a dream that the "Great Queen" (an antique doll her mother keeps locked in a glass cabinet that the kids use for the game) and that the doll is made from the bones and ashes of a dead girl named Eleanor Kerchner who is now a ghost and wants to be returned to her proper grave.\nThe three kids leave notes for their parents and take a night bus to East Liverpool, Ohio (a few hour\'s bus ride away) hoping to return the following evening to avoid discovery.\nOn the bus they are accosted by a man named Tinshoe Jones who seems to see the doll as a real person and warns them that the bus driver talks with aliens who "change people faces".\nThe bus makes a stop in East Rochester, PA and the children flee when it appears the bus driver and station attendant intend to capture them.\nThey spend the night in a small park near the Ohio river and during the night their meager supplies are inexplicably torn apart and ruined.\nThey enter a donut shop with exotic flavored donuts and the shopkeeper offers the "hungry blond girl" (the doll) a Pepto Bismol flavored donut.\nThey argue about the quest, but, still hoping to catch the bus back home in time, decide to continue the quest if possible by walking to East Liverpool.\nThe quest seems to end, however, when they find themselves on the banks of a tributary river flowing into the Ohio.\nAlice is ready to return home, but Poppy, realizing both Alice and Zach have secrets, blackmails them into continuing the quest.\nThey steal a small sailboat named "Pearl" and clumsily sail their way to East Liverpool.\nAngry, wet, disheartened, and now late for the bus, the three argue again and Poppy reveals that Alice loves Zach and wants to date him.\nNow angry and awkward, they enter town and find a diner where the attendant also seems to see the doll as a person.\nThey find a map of town and break into the closed library where they research the cemetery and inadvertently spend the night when they all fall asleep.\nThey are woken by Miss Katherine, a young, pink-haired librarian who locks them in a break room and makes them call their respective parents and guardians.\nThe doll, however, is missing, and they resolve to break free, find the doll, and complete the quest.\nZach finds the doll in a ladies\' restroom in the basement near a display of Lukas Kerchner\'s exotic pottery and learns about Eleanor\'s father and her mysterious disappearance.\nFleeing the librarian the children steal two bikes and go to the cemetery where they look in vain for the willow tree that should mark the grave.\nFrustrated, Zach tells the girls the truth about the action figures and runs off into the cemetery where he lies down and sobs uncontrollably.\nThe girls find him sitting by the stone of the Kerchner family which has a willow carved into it.