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Title details for The Bone Thief by Alyson Noel - Available

The Bone Thief

by Alyson Noel
Robbie Daymond
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Fans of Tim Burton and Wes Anderson will love this new fantasy novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël in which a ragtag team of eleven-year olds with otherworldly abilities set out to solve the mystery behind the sudden onset of ordinary events plaguing their very unusual town.
 
Compared to other more ordinary towns, Quiver Hollows is a very strange, very curious place. It is also home to longtime friends Grimsly, Ollie, Ming, and Penelope. In a town where everyone is spectacularly abnormal, Grimsly feels bad about being terribly, unforgivably normal, as the town's pet funeral director. So when a series of strange and disturbing mundane occurrences begins plaguing Quiver Hollows, well, Grimsly fears his growing celebrity just might be to blame since everyone knows that the things you focus on the most have an uncanny way of shaping your world.
 
The group of friends also learn that the bones in the pet cemetery are thought to be the source of the strange magic that binds the town of Quiver Hollows. With the bones now gone, the town's magic is quickly dissipating. Will it ultimately become as common and ordinary as everywhere else?

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  • Release date

    October 17, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780525500643
      • File size: 210063 KB
      • Duration: 07:17:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 4, 2017
      Twelve-year-old orphan Grimsly Summerfield has the distinction of being the only normal resident of Quiver Hollows, a magical town where waterfalls flow in endless loops and people have supernatural abilities. In order to make himself more interesting, Grimsly begins to perform pet funerals at Summerfield Lawn, next to the twisted metal house he shares with Professor Snelling, his adoptive father. When things in Quiver Hollows start to become less magical, Grimsly is the natural person to blame. To save the only home he’s ever known, Grimsly must travel to the outside world to figure out what is happening. Noël (Five Days of Famous) takes a familiar trope—the special orphan—and inverts it in a way that recalls Gitty Daneshvari’s League of Unexceptional Children series (Grimsly is special precisely because he’s so completely ordinary). Despite this twist, most of the magical elements will strike fantasy fans as overly familiar. It’s an entertaining story, but not one that distinguishes itself from the pack. Ages 10–up. Agent: Bill Contardi, Brandt & Hochman.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Robbie Daymond sweeps listeners into Quiver Hollows on the day Grimsly fails the sixth-grade spoon-bending examination at the Manifesters Academy. In a wondrous and magical world whose denizens' abnormalities are celebrated, Grimsly has tried to make himself interesting by performing pet funerals. Now his normalcy not only makes him stand out in the town but it also makes his community blame him when things start becoming ordinary. Daymond's characters project the appropriate emotions as the book moves from humorous to much darker tones. An enjoyable performance compensates for a somewhat lackluster story. B.F. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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