The Meanest Doll in the World
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The Meanest Doll in the World is a children's novel by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin. First published in 2003, it is a sequel to The Doll People
, featuring, like the other books in the series, dolls who are secretly alive.
and get taken to school. There, they explore and eventually get into a backpack they think is Kate's but is really the backpack of a different child, named BJ. The dolls are taken to BJ's house where they meet Waterfall, Melody, Yvonne, Penny, and Beth, the toys of BJ's sister, Callie. Annabelle and Tiffany are introduced to the meanest doll in the world, Princess Mimi (called by the toys Mean Mimi). Mean Mimi tries to boss them around too, but Annabelle and Tiffany escape into BJ's backpack where, at school, they can go back into Kate's backpack and get home to their worried families. Little do they know that Mean Mimi has followed them. At the Palmers' house, Mimi fake cries and tricks the Dolls and the Funcrafts into letting her stay with them. What they do not know is that Mimi is trying to torture them, too. She tries to wake up Kate so she will know about the mess she made, and think the dolls did it. Nora, Kate's little sister, sees Mean Mimi jump off Kate's bookshelf in a stunt to expose the life of dolls, and Mimi goes into PDS (Permanent Doll State, where dolls cannot come to life ever again because they put the secret life of dolls in danger). So at the end of the story, Mean Mimi, in PDS, is taken to Kate's school's lost and found
and never seen again.
The Doll People
The Doll People is a children's novel written by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin. It is illustrated by Brian Selznick, the author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It tells a story about the imaginary world of dolls when no one is watching. A doll made of china and her new best friend made of plastic...
, featuring, like the other books in the series, dolls who are secretly alive.
Plot summary
The novel revolves around the troubles that Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft get into when trying to hide from their owner, Kate Palmer. They hide in her backpackBackpack
A backpack is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be exceptions...
and get taken to school. There, they explore and eventually get into a backpack they think is Kate's but is really the backpack of a different child, named BJ. The dolls are taken to BJ's house where they meet Waterfall, Melody, Yvonne, Penny, and Beth, the toys of BJ's sister, Callie. Annabelle and Tiffany are introduced to the meanest doll in the world, Princess Mimi (called by the toys Mean Mimi). Mean Mimi tries to boss them around too, but Annabelle and Tiffany escape into BJ's backpack where, at school, they can go back into Kate's backpack and get home to their worried families. Little do they know that Mean Mimi has followed them. At the Palmers' house, Mimi fake cries and tricks the Dolls and the Funcrafts into letting her stay with them. What they do not know is that Mimi is trying to torture them, too. She tries to wake up Kate so she will know about the mess she made, and think the dolls did it. Nora, Kate's little sister, sees Mean Mimi jump off Kate's bookshelf in a stunt to expose the life of dolls, and Mimi goes into PDS (Permanent Doll State, where dolls cannot come to life ever again because they put the secret life of dolls in danger). So at the end of the story, Mean Mimi, in PDS, is taken to Kate's school's lost and found
Lost and found
A lost and found , lost property , or lost articles is an office in a large public building or area where visitors can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by other visitors...
and never seen again.