At school, Samira learns about skeletons and is horrified to learn that everyone, including her best friend, Frida has one. Samira is so disturbed by this new knowledge that she is unable to go on with her usual activities and avoids her friends. When her mother offers to remove her skeleton for her, Samira quickly realizes that she needs her skeleton after all.

Author lives in Oslo.

Norway. Originally published in Norway as Samira og skjelettene by Cappelen Damm AS in 2014. English translation by Don Bartlett published in the United States by Eerdmans in 2016.