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Wooden Bones

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7
Page count: 18

Author

Charles
de Lint

Appeared in

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Story Summary

A young girl, thinking herself to be the cause of her parents divorce, is forced to spend the summer on a farm with her hick cousin. But she is taught self-acceptance by a rather peculiar fiddle playing spirit who inhabits the barn up the hill.