Dreamquest
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Eleven-year-old Julie Fray is living a nightmare. Her parents are fighting so much she can't even escape when she goes to sleep. Every night she has horrible dreams--and all she wants is for them to stop.
Then one night she wakes up inside her dream, in the studio where her dreams are produced! There is even a star who looks just like Julie who plays her in her dreams. With some help from a production assistant named Roman, Julie learns that if she can somehow find the people responsible for producing her dreams, she might be able to make them less scary. But it won't be easy: the tiny tear in the "fabric"of her consciousness that let her fall into the dream studio in the first place is closing fast...and she could be trapped inside her own head forever!
Even worse, it turns out that when Julie fell into her dreams, Vivian, the actress who plays Julie in her dreams, escaped into the waking world--and the fake Julie will stop at nothing to take over Julie's life.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hartinger (Grand & Humble) deftly moves into the realm of fantasy in his latest outing. Eleven-year-old Julie is caught in between her parents. Her mother, a consummate homemaker, and her television producer father constantly use Julie as a tool to jibe at each other, and the stress spills over into Julie's dreams. She is troubled by increasingly violent nightmares having to avoid giant vacuum cleaners or being trussed up like a pig for her parents' consumption. One night while asleep, she stumbles into the land of Slumberia and into a film studio, where her dreams are filmed nightly. She embarks on a quest to meet the executives who create and control her dreams, befriending a bounty of oddball characters a shark turned lawyer and a mustachioed butterfly, among others along the way. But Vivian, the villainous actress who portrays Julie in her nightmares, travels through the rift that brought Julie to Slumberia. Vivian ingratiates herself into the girl's life, scoring a role on Julie's father's television show and befriending the popular crowd at school, much to Julie's horror. As Julie restores order within her own head, the physical landscape around her is renewed, lending an air of allegory to the tale. Hartinger's winning pairing of a sincere message with hyperbolic humor should resonate with readers. Ages 8-up.
