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    Among the Dolls

    By William Sleator

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    About this ebook

    A Caldecott Honor recipient, science fiction author William Sleator presents "a fast-paced, chilling fantasy" (Booklist) of one girl's unexpected adventure beyond her imagaination.

    A dark awakening...

    When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she's expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants.

    The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape from her parents's arguments. As Vicky's life becomes more troubled, she starts to take out her frustration on the dolls, making their lives as unhappy as hers.

    Then one day, Vicky wakes up inside the dollhouse, trapped among the monsters she's created. Bewildered, Vicky is sure she's dreaming. Can she find her way out of this nightmare world?

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 2, 2006
    ISBN9781466827424
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    Among the Dolls
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    William Sleator

    William Sleator (1945–2011) was an American science fiction author best known for his young adult novels. Raised outside of St. Louis, Missouri, Sleator was the eldest of four children. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in English, he moved to England for a short time, where he played music for ballet classes and developed the ideas for Blackbriar, his first novel. For many years, he was the rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet. Sleator is the author of over thirty books, including The Angry Moon, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal and nominated for the National Book Award, as well as the quasi-autobiographical science fiction thrillers: The Night the Heads Came, Others See Us, and Oddballs. In his later years, he split his time between Boston and rural Thailand.

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    • 3/5
      A Twilight-Zone-ish story about a young girl whose parents buy her a dollhouse. In some inexplicable way she becomes one of the dolls, or rather, she finds herself inside the dollhouse - a prisoner of the menacing dolls. Not much is actually explained, but it will intrigue young readers (8 or 9 y.o.) It will probably freak out anyone younger so -- beware!
    • 5/5
      This is a chilling story of a girl who was unhappy about playing with her dolls until one day she became one of them...
      I am 28 years old when I read Among the Dolls and boy this gives me the creeps! I became a fan of William Sleator after I read The House of Stairs.
      Neil Gaiman's Coraline is similar to this one, so if you love it I recommend this to you.
    • 4/5
      As creepy as any of Sleator's work with an unsatisfying ending.
    • 3/5
      Another not-so-great Sleator (though it's not as disappointing as Into The Dream). The premise is great, the idea is creepy, and the ending is okay. Just none of it was well executed. I feel like it should've been longer and more detailed, because it doesn't feel very well-written, and with only 84 pages, there's not time to -do- much.Maybe it's meant for younger writers, but usually William Sleator is creepy as heck or at least -interesting- as heck. But he really wasn't this time around. I saw the "twist" coming, but the twist isn't actually ever explained.Honestly, the cover is the creepiest part of this book.
    • 3/5
      Instead of getting Vicky the brand new ten-speed bike that she is dreaming about for her birthday her parents buy her a large dollhouse they discover in a creepy little antique shop. Vicky is so not happy with this dark and musty gift, but is soon drawn in by adding a new doll to the four that came with the house. Things start going a bit wrong in her family and Vicky begins acting out with the dolls. Suddenly Vicky finds herself in the house with the dolls and they have been none to happy with her treatment of them. What will they do to her and will she escape?A great little horror story coming in at 84 pages I'd recommend to the reluctant 4th grader for sure.
    • 4/5
      This was written in the 70s, yet I had never heard of it. I bought it on a whim after being recommended one of his other books through Amazon, [Oddballs]. I figured that I would do this fiction one first, then go through the short-storied Oddballs.It was definitely an interesting children's book. It read like a short story to me (around 80 pages). I liked that it was darker than your usual kiddie fare. The only thing I wasn't thrilled with was the ending.Vicky seems to be a spoiled child. When she gets a dollhouse instead of the ten-speed she wanted, she gets down in the dirt. This seems to set off a chain of reactions of bad moods in the house, her parents starting to fight and blame her for things she didn't do. She playacts this with her dolls. She wakes up in the dollhouse, where he has some twerped-off little people waiting to extract their revenge.
    • 5/5
      A very short, very eerie tale of an antique doll house and its inhabitants, and the evil influence they seem to have over the "real" family. Did the dolls turn evil because they were treated badly, or were they treated badly because they are evil???