![]() ![]() Miren quickly finds out, but although she can’t keep a secret, overworked, underpaid, and worried Mom is literally unable to see the skeleton, dubbed Princy by Miren. Stanly tries to keep his (literally) growing secret confined to his OCD–diagnosed best friend, Jaxon (who has a “cloud of black hair” but is otherwise racially unidentified). Francine, part-time cook and child care helper from Kyrgyzstan. ![]() It is peppered with whimsical asides and anatomical jokes in addition to homespun tales from Ms. This ambitious debut story of magical thinking keeps a mostly light tone despite the worsening gravity of Miren’s health throughout. ![]() Photographing and writing about this, he reasons, may lead to winning the Young Discoverer’s Prize, which will bring Dad back from 1,500 miles away, and then his little sister, Miren, might stop getting sicker. When white, zombie-obsessed, 12-year-old Stanly discovers a human skeleton growing up from his backyard-beginning as a single fingertip-he sees opportunity. ![]()
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