Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
There really is a store called Pants Unlimited in East Liverpool, Ohio. The author saw it when she went to the town to do research for the book.
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The Orchid Ware in the book is based on a real line of bone china called Lotus Ware. It's so fragile that only around 5,000 pieces of it exist today.
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Holly Black has sworn that she won't write a sequel to Doll Bones. Why not? Because she wants to leave the characters' fate open-ended.
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Holly Black loves watching bad reality television. Some of her favorites? Catfish, Dance Moms, and Breaking Amish.
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