About this item
Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms as a boy trades bodies with a wooden marionette.The Museum of Peculiar Arts holds many oddities--a mechanical heart, a diary bound in its owner's skin . . . and Penny, a child-size marionette who almost looks alive. Fog clouds Penny's memories from before the museum, but she catches glimpses here and there: a stage, deep red curtains, long-fingered hands gripping her strings.One day, a boy named Chance touches Penny's strings and hears her voice in his head. Penny can listen, and watch, and think?Now 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.
About the Author
Michelle Schusterman is the author of over a dozen middle grade and young adult books, including Olive and the Backstage Ghost, Spell & Spindle, The Pros of Cons, Secrets of Topsea (as M. Shelley Coats) , The Kat Sinclair Files, and I Heart Band. Her books have received critical acclaim and honors such as starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and Booklist, Junior Library Guild selections, ALA Rainbow List and Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers selections, and CBCC "Best of" Children's Literature list.
