ASIN: B076B5Y4J6
Publisher: Lo-Fi Books
Pages: 152
Saskia, a one-eyed 10-year-old girl, meets a skeleton in the Spooky Woods and, delighted with his tailcoat and the bird nesting in his ribcage, befriends him; together, they go on to have many horrible adventures and find themselves in a lot of wonderful trouble.Saskia lives in a castle with her Princess and Franz (a nice-cat-turned-nasty-human), attends Bastilly’s School for the Ungifted, Average, and Unchosen, and dreams of becoming a circus acrobat. Apart from her being frequently bullied by her proper classmates, Saskia’s life is charmed—that is, until she invites a skeleton over for dinner. Before she knows it, proper grown-ups kidnap Saskia and take her to the Prison for Children Who Did Something Wrong. There, Madam Horridan, who Saskia suspects might be a wicked hag, tries to convince the girl that her castle is a decrepit eyesore, her Princess is sick and needs to take metal ...
