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The Bone Magician
Contributor(s): Higgins, F. E. (Author)
ISBN: 031265944X     ISBN-13: 9780312659448
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 920
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.21" W x 7.62" (0.53 lbs) 306 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 127263
Reading Level: 6.3   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
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Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they're buried. The body he's supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fianc can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can't believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.
Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer's next victim.
As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse of it.

Contributor Bio(s): Higgins, F. E.: - F.E. Higgins is the author of The Black Book of Secrets, The Bone Magician and The Eyeball Collector. As a child, she once saw a ghostly apparition, and ever since then, she has been fascinated by the macabre. She travels the world, collecting strange artifacts and stranger stories. Born in London, F.E. Higgins now lives in a haunted house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent.