Plot Summary: The Deadly Bones

Improved Essays
Two years after a car accident that killed her husband, Karen has difficulties as a single mother. Emily, Navin, and the mother move to an old house inherited from Karen's grandfather Silas. The mother says that Silas was a "puzzle maker" who disappeared after locking himself in the house. While exploring Silas's library, Emily finds a stone amulet that had been hidden in a table, and Navin helps her wear it around her neck.

That night, the amulet tells Emily that her family is in danger. A noise from the basement awakens the family, and as they enter to investigate, Karen is kidnapped by a monster with tentacles. The children go downstairs to look, but when they reach the bottom of the stairs they are trapped in a different world and are
…show more content…
There is an enormous hole overhead leading to the surface. An elf with an amulet tries to attack them, but a large humanoid uses a ray gun to stun the elf and then rows the children across the water to Silas's house. There they discover that Silas's assistant is a small rabbit like robot named Miskit who had been controlling a large humanoid robot. The children find Silas on his deathbed. Silas says that the amulet has great power and will allow her to rule the land of Alledia, and even has the power to turn back time, making Emily think of when her dad was alive and the possibility that she can use the Amulet to bring her dad back. Lastly, Silas tells Emily she must either accept or reject the amulet's power. Then he …show more content…
They pass through a tunnel with walls lined with tentacled monsters and then see several Arachnopods, one is carrying their mother. They are unable to rescue her before their vehicle crash lands.

The elf they saw earlier uses his amulet to destroy the Arachnopod who had her mother and holds her captive. The elf then captures Emily with his magical power, demanding that she kill his father the Elf King. With her amulet, Emily repels the elf, but when her amulet asks her to kill the elf she refuses. Instead, Emily tells the elf to never come near her family again. The elf leaves, and the children and Miskit take Karen back to Silas's house.

The helper robots determine that Karen was poisoned and needs an antidote, but the nearest city is 300 miles away. To take the mother to the city as soon as possible, the helper robots cause the entire house to be transformed into a giant robot. The giant robot, with everyone inside, walks through the water surrounding Silas's house, climbs out of the hole to the surface and starts walking across the landscape to the city, to take her to get the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In 1735 the Haw Branch Plantation was built by Thomas Tabb and his wife Rebecca Booker. They planation was success until Cary and Gibson McConnaughey took over. The McConnaughey’s were cruel people who treated the servants and slaves like garbage. Mr. McConnaughey was the worse of the two she would beat and mock those who worked for them. One day he was walking through the fields and noticed that Abena an elderly old women was exhausted and on the brink of losing consciousness.…

    • 1401 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dewey Dell Quotes

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages

    As they progress in the story, we begin to see more and more Darl in different situations, but more importantly on how he has all this knowledge about what’s going on at the moments, as well as personal information of other characters. In section 7 Dewey Dell is introduced to the story, she is the only girl Addie and Anse had. But almost is immediately discouraged for the rest of the novel as Darl knows of her secret,”It was then, and then I saw Darl and he knew. He said he knew without the words like he told me that ma is going to die without words/ But he said he did know…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    After Sukey leaves, Emmaline decides to use this time to explore the streets in hope to find Tommy. She then finds herself lost in Seven Dials where a prostitute informs Emmaline while mistaking her as one of the stranger’s own kind “anything a lass needs can be found right here...anything and more.” (page 201), causing Emmaline to run out in fear. Despite her unease, she keeps searching ultimately leading her to a Sunday School, where she collects more information on sweeps. This act of bravery leads to more potential whereabouts of Tommy.…

    • 1206 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the book A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans uses the idea of a demonic presence to suggest the idea that there are sources of evil in everyday life, for example, the significant theme of technology in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Both authors present pernicious issues that cause obsession, emotional turmoil, and strained relationships in the lives of the protagonists. Also, each book introduces the malevolent subjects as things that are supposed to be helpful to the characters involved, and after the struggling with the harmful obstacles, both main characters find a solution in similar ways. First, Evans and Sloan bring the evil into the main character’s life without him realizing that it is there for wicked reasons.…

    • 1018 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Screams of terror were the first thing that greeted Annabeth’s ears as she woke. She quietly groaned and quickly shoved Percy off the couch with her foot before getting up to stretch and regain her bearings. As soon as both Annabeth and Percy had regained their bearings and reacquainted themselves with their new dorm common area the raced up the stairs into the boy's dorm, conveniently running into Thalia and Piper who had just come from the girls dorm to see what was going on. Quickly they made their way up the stairs to be greeted with a screaming Leo, a freaking out Stolls, Jason who was trying to put out the fire that Leo had started and a bleary eyed and Nico, whose bed head made them all want to die of laughter. Snapping back to reality and as if they had arranged everything beforehand the group sprang into action.…

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Adam Gierasch Essay

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Demons, houses with dark pasts, and plenty of gore. These are just some of the things you will be able to find within the works of Adam Gierasch. Gierasch is an LA- based American horror film director, writer, and actor inspired by David Cronenberg, John Water, and even the movie Final Destination. He has worked on projects such as The Mother of Tears, Mortuary, Toolbox Murders remake, and Rats. These movies help to express Gierasch’s love for horror itself.…

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Book Summary: The Glade

    • 2385 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Summary: Only the lucky survive Thomas wakes up in a box with no memory of his past and the only thing he can cling to is his name. He is surrounded by strangers- boys in particular, who also have no memories of their pasts. Thomas finds himself stuck in a place called “The Glade”. The Glade is surrounded by a towering, boundless, transitioning maze which inhabits the terrorizing flesh-eating “Grievers”. The maze is the only way to get out-…

    • 2385 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Ocean at The End of the Lane is a novel which was written by Neil Gaiman, and it was originally published by William Morrow and Company in 2013. It is a novel of fantasy, in that a seven-year-old boy experienced something horrifying and peculiar. The theme of this novel is the childhood memory which has been lost when you get older. Although it was a fantasy story, this is the book more for adults than children.…

    • 1127 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    What do you get when you move into a house with a brooding history,and have neighbors that readily and normally have encounters with the paranormal? You get In the Murder House, a novelette by author Daniel Powell. A real page turner this well-done ghost story roils with supernatural suspense, chills and some heart warming moments as well. Jason Denton, widower,and supernatural skeptic, moves into a new home along, his young daughter Kayla move looking towards change of scenery after the tragic loss of wife Sarah. He suddenly finds himself in the midst of a paranormal adventure after accepting an invite from his new neighbors to join in on a seance, which quickly leads to a life altering adventure filled with surprises and chills.…

    • 186 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She gets lost in the woods behind her house and she is trying to find her way back. On the way, she sees a house and decides to go to it and ask how to get home. A peculiar man opens the door by the name of Mr. Bender. He asks her to come in and see his art collection. She does so and by the end of the encounter, she has met her first friend, Mr. Bender.…

    • 1406 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Claire's community, everything is perfect, there are no animals or weather and everyone is assigned a job when they are a twelve. At her ceremony of twelve, Claire is assigned birthmother and has her first baby at fourteen. But, something goes wrong and Claire is reassigned to the fish hatchery. Upon leaving the birthing unit, a worker there accidentally tells her that the baby she had is in fact, a boy. No mother is allowed to see their baby, as it will be reassigned to another couple who has applied for one.…

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Thomas Lowe Mrs. Dennis English II Period 2 10-23-15 Book Summary While 3-year-old Daniel is playing in the basement of his home, he hears his parents attacked and killed by an intruder demanding something called “The List.” When the assailant comes downstairs, Daniel realizes that it is not a human, but an insect-like alien called "The Prayer." However, Daniel is not an ordinary human boy but an incredibly intelligent alien with the ability to create and change anything into other shapes and forms. Knowing The Prayer is trying to kill him, Daniel transforms into a tick and jumps on The Prayer's head so that he can get away. Daniel watches while The Prayer burns his house with the bodies of his parents.…

    • 704 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book I chose for my book talk is “The Amulet of Samarkand”. This story takes place in a modern-day magician's society in London, England. Nathaniel, an incredibly talented magician's apprentice lives with his master, Arthur Underwood, and spends his days locked inside, studying and immersing himself in the arts of magic.…

    • 809 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As Thomas was getting more soil, the sme one of the runners, Ben and went up to him, Ben started running after him. He was bitten by a griever, The griever was a monster that was in the maze, but they usually only come at night, As he ran Ben finally caught him. The gladers all came down to help Thomas. They finally pulled him off and put him in a cage. Since he was now a threat, all they could do was put him back in the maze at night so he would die.…

    • 182 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A major theme in short stories is isolation. In “Lusus Naturae” by Margaret Atwood and “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison illustrates the theme of physical isolation. Robert Carver shows the narrators isolation is self-inflected in the story “Cathedral”. Self-inflected isolation is also displayed in “Lusus Naturae”.…

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays