If she’d wanted to cut up the same unnaturals as usual, she would have asked to stay with her dad in the States and work on unicorns. She’d been looking forward to dissecting something new. It wasn’t that zannies were common, but Nita had dissected plenty during the months she and her mother spent in Southeast Asia last year. I thought we moved to Peru to hunt South and Central American unnaturals? Chupacabras and pishtacos and whatever. He was indistinguishable on the outside from any other human-the inside, of course, was a different matter.Īnother zannie? Nita scowled at her mother and crossed her arms as she examined the body.

Middle-aged, and in the place between pudgy and overweight, he wore a casual business suit and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with silver handles that blended into the gray at his temples. NITA STARED AT the dead body lying on the kitchen table. To all those who know the line between good and evil is blurrier than people want to admit One | Horror stories.Ĭlassification: LCC PZ7.1.S335 | DDC -dc23

Title: Not even bones / Rebecca Schaefferĭescription: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, | Summary: Nita’s mother hunts and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.Ĭover illustrations © 2018 by Will Staehle Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster.Īll rights reserved. But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place-because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that. 'Twisty, grisly, genre-bending and immersive, Not Even Bones will grab you by the throat and drag you along as it gleefully tramples all of your expectations.' -Sara Holland, New York Times best-selling author of Everless Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market-until she’s betrayed.

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