The Nightmare Thief
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
For fans of A Snicker of Magic and The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl comes a suspenseful dark fantasy duology, perfect for middle school readers that love stories of magic and sisterhood with a dash of danger.
Maren Partridge loves working in her family's dream shop where she can hand-craft any dream imaginable. The shop has only one rule. Dreams cannot be given to a person without their consent. Maren has no problem with this—until her sister, Hallie, has an accident that leaves her in a coma. Maren's certain she can cure Hallie with a few well-chosen dreams. And when no one is watching, she slips her a flying dream.
But a strange new customer from the shop has been following Maren and knows what she did. Now she's laid the perfect trap to blackmail Maren into creating custom nightmares for a dark and terrible purpose. As Maren gets drawn further into the sinister scheme, she must make a choice: to protect her family or to protect the town from her family's magic.
Pick up the first book in the Nightmare Thief duology if you are looking for:
•Suspenseful stories of magical realism for kids with a side of danger
•Gifts for 11 year old girls, 13 year old girls, and any young reader 11-14 that loves fantasy
•Books that explore bullying, family ties, and feature strong female characters
•Books for 4th graders, and any classroom with grades 3-8
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Employing sensory details and potent imagery, Lesperance (The Wide Starlight) constructs a fanciful world in which dreams and nightmares are a commodity, created, bought, and sold. Desperate to help her older sister, Hallie, who's in a coma following an accident, 12-year-old Maren Partridge breaks her dream-making family's number one rule no giving dreams without the receiver's consent by sneaking Hallie a pleasant one on her birthday. Maren is blackmailed for the act by sinister Ms. Malo, an insect-wielding enigma with a "hearty appetite" for nightmares: in exchange for an escalating supply of horrifying dreams and forbidden ingredients, she'll keep Maren's secret to herself. As the inhabitants of whimsically magic-infused Rockpool Bay begin suffering odd mishaps, Maren struggles to escape her tormentor's demands. But when her grandmother is kidnapped, it's up to Maren and her former best friend, Amos, to rescue Gran-Gran and thwart Malo's scheme. Lesperance crafts a resourceful heroine whose loyalty forces her to confront a difficult situation and come out stronger. She also folds a satisfying sense of wonder into the quaint town, balanced with a chilling element of darkness. Ages 8 14.
