Spell and Spindle

Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms in this masterful examination of sacrifice and sibling love.

Penny is a life-size, life-like marionette who has sat for years on a shelf at the Museum of Peculiar Arts. Chance is a boy who helps out at the museum and talks to Penny as he dusts and sweeps. Then one day, Chance touches Penny’s strings and hears her voice in his head. Penny can listen, and watch, and think?

But someone else is watching Penny and Chance–a man with a sharp face, a puppeteer who has the tools to change things. A string through a needle. A twist of a spindle. And suddenly, Chance is trapped in Penny’s marionette body, while Penny is free to run and dance. She knows that the right thing to do is to find a way to switch back. But this body feels so wonderful, so alive! How can she ever return to her puppet shell?

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USA/Canada: Random House (Summer 2018)

• Ages 8 - 12