Reunited in a common goal, the three friends set out in the middle of the night to return the doll bones to their proper resting place in another town. She believes the doll was made from the skeleton of a dead girl who wants the doll buried in her family's grave. He gets drawn back in after Poppy becomes certain the old bone china doll they call the Queen, who rules their game from a spot inside a locked display cabinet, is haunting her. Enraged and embarrassed, Zach can't admit to Alice and Poppy what has happened, and instead announces that he is done playing. His father throws Zach's game action figures in the trash, determined to push him to grow up and to protect him from potential humiliation. But now that they are in middle school, Zach has begun to worry how his basketball teammates would react if they knew what he was doing. Zach, Alice, and Poppy's friendship has always revolved around an ongoing game they play together, involving imaginary characters and an ever-expanding storyline.
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