Spell and Spindle

Michelle Schusterman

ISBN 10: 0399550704 / ISBN 13: 9780399550706

Published by Random House USA Inc, 2018

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Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms as a boy who 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. She knows that finding a way to switch back is the right thing to do. But this body feels so wonderful, so full of life! How can Penny ever return to her puppet shell?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spell and Spindle
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399550704
• ISBN 13: 9780399550706
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Honesta, Kathrin
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms as a boy who 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. She knows that finding a way to switch back is the right thing to do. But this body feels so wonderful, so full of life! How can Penny ever return to her puppet shell?

About the Author

Michelle Schusterman lives in a monstrous city filled with ghosts, some of whom she allows to creep into her stories. She is the author of Olive and the Backstage Ghost, I Heart Band (a Scholastic Reading Club pick), and The Kat Sinclair Files. She's also co-author of the YA novel The Pros of Cons and of the middle grade series Secrets of Topsea (under the pseudonym M. Shelly Coats). Find out more at michelleschusterman.com and follow her on Instagram: @michelleschusterman.