The Bone Magician

By F.E. Higgins

Book Overview

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 fiance 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.Once again, F.E. Higgins delivers a story that is full of intrigue and suspense.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312368453
• ISBN13: 9780312368456
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

My almost 11yo LOVED this!

My almost 11yo is a big science fiction/fantasy fan, but he doesn't like just anything. This and the other books in this series were big hits. He would read in any free moment till he finished each one.

Let's be fair...

I admit that I sometimes determine whether or not to purchase a book by reading the reviews. So, when I saw that this book had only one "review" (a bad one) I decided that I have to put in my two cents. I enjoyed reading this book, not as much as the The Black Book of Secrets, by the same author, but more than The Eyeball Collector, also by the same author. All three stories have a macabre feeling without getting too morbid. I would definately recommend to my sixth-grade students, if they want to read a story that is creepy and strangely disturbing (Elephant Man-esque).