![]() ![]() None of them can remember when they decided to make her the Great Queen, but since then, they'd served at her pleasure in 'the game'. Somehow, the doll seemed to watch everyone and everything in such a creepy manner that Poppy's sister was afraid of her. ![]() Her mother had first found the Queen at a tag sale and was convinced she would be worth a great deal one day. Playing an ongoing game of make-believe, the three friends have created an entire world of fiction in which they serve an old porcelain doll they call the Queen who is confined in a cabinet in Poppy's house along with other things that Poppy has been forbidden to touch. They go to the same school, and spend a great deal of time together, most of it lost in their imaginations. Zach, Alice and Poppy have been friends for years. Doll Bones by Holly Black is a novel that follows three children from imagination to puberty and back again. ![]()
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