Poppy claims that she took the Great Queen doll out of the cabinet and then was visited by the ghost of a little girl named Eleanor Kerchner. Several days later, Alice and Poppy sneak into Zach’s house at midnight and coax him to come outside. Poppy tries to bribe Zach to continue the game by offering to take the Great Queen out of the locked cabinet, but he refuses.
In fact, he doesn’t want Poppy to even talk about the game. Instead, he tells them that he doesn’t want to play anymore. Zach can’t admit to Poppy or Alice what happened, afraid that his anger at the situation will consume him if he says anything. His father tries to get the dolls back from the dump but it’s no use. His father assures Zach that he did it for his own good because a boy his age will be bullied if his friends discover he still plays with dolls. Already angry with his father for leaving the family years ago and now trying to re-establish his connection to them, Zach is livid. One day Zach comes home from school to find that his father has thrown all of his action figures into the garbage. In the morning, her sister remembered nothing, but Poppy and her friends became convinced that the doll is haunted. Poppy swears that one time her sister sat up in the middle of the night and cried that if the doll ever got out of the case she’d come after them. She hopes the doll will be worth a fortune and forbids Poppy and her friends from playing with it. Poppy’s mother found the doll at a tag sale and plans on getting it appraised someday. Alice favors her funny thief character, Lady Jaye, while Poppy just loves to create stories that center around the dread Great Queen, an antique china doll that never leaves the glass case in Poppy’s house. His favorite character is the pirate captain, William the Blade. Zach fears his teammates on the basketball team will tease him if they find out he still plays with dolls, but he loves the adventures that he and his friends make up. It involves various dolls and action figures and the fantastic stories they all help to create. Now 12 and in junior high, they still love to play their favorite game. Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends since they were little kids.
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