| ISBN |
9781250250384 (paperback) |
| Name |
Cohen, Marina, 1967- author. |
| Title |
A box of bones / Marina Cohen. |
| Published |
New York : Square Fish, 2020. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
284 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
"Legends are stories... and stories are lies." -- Cover. |
| "Illustrations by Yana Bogatch"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
Twelve-year-old Kallie despises nonsense. She believes there's a rational explanation for everything, despite the good-natured prodding of her Grandpa Jess, who takes her to frivolous wastes of time like their town's local Festival of Fools. There, Kallie meets a faceless man (must be some kind of mask) who gives her a strange wooden puzzle box (must be some kind of gimmick). Intrigued despite herself, Kallie sets to work on unlocking its secrets and...lets something out. From here Kallie's life begins to entangle with another world, a world where Liah, a young bone carver, journeys with her master to sell wares to a wicked Queen. The sights, sounds, smells, and spells of Liah's world are beginning to leak into Kallie's, and if Kallie can't decipher the meaning of her own story, "the end" might be far from happy. |
| Target audience note |
9+ years old. |
| Subjects |
Puzzles -- Juvenile fiction |
| Wooden boxes -- Juvenile fiction |
| Bone carving -- Juvenile fiction |
| Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction |
| Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction |
| Logic -- Juvenile fiction |
| Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Genre |
Fantasy fiction |
| Horror fiction |
| Other Names |
Bogatch, Yana illustrator. |
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