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The Skull

Written by Jon Klassen · Illustrated by Jon Klassen

Walker Books / Candlewick Press · 5+

Novel · PB · Fiction

What’s lurking inside?

A runaway girl finds a talking skull in an abandoned forest house and helps confront the headless skeleton that stalks it each night, in Klassen's eerie adaptation of a Tyrolean folktale.

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