Dream Entry
Date: August 14, 2003*
It’s a sunshiny day. I’m walking by the library when I hear a sound like ice cubes being cracked out of their tray, but a hundred times louder. It scares me, so I run into the library through the dog door. When I get inside, the sound is even louder. Bigfoot is standing in the lobby. He’s holding a hammer and a bucket of ice.
“I’m glad you’re here,” he says.
As he leads me through the rows of book shelves, he tells me that he needs me to move all the books out of the library until they have finished putting in the ski slope. We pass a shelf labeled 790–799. On the other side of it is a huge trench in the middle of the floor. It’s wider than makes sense for the size of the library, and so deep I can’t see the bottom. Morzant is at the edge of the trench. He’s wearing a scarf and mittens and holding a huge tube that’s spitting out chips of ice and snow.
Bigfoot takes me to the shelves labeled with my friends’ names, and the three names I know only from my last dream about the library: Oliver, Lenny, and Violet. And this time there’s also a shelf with my name on it.
In front of these shelves are nine red wagons. Each wagon has one of our names painted on the side with what smells like mustard. I lick off the “T” in “Bigfoot.” It tastes like strawberry jelly.
The lower shelves are empty. All the books I’m supposed to move are too high for me to reach. I ask Bigfoot how I can get to them, but he is gone. In his place is a beagle puppy with a purple collar.
“I can help,” she says.
She stares at the top of Bigfoot’s shelf and the books there start to quiver. One falls down, almost hitting me on the head. Then the book lifts from the floor and floats towards Bigfoot’s wagon. The puppy stares at the book as it hovers over the wagon. As she nods her head, the book drops into the wagon. She turns to the shelf again, and another book comes down. This one doesn’t fall. This happens again and again until the shelves are empty and each of the wagons is full of books.
“See you later,” the puppy says.
She scampers off to some other part of the library. I hear two different voices greet her and then the sound of toenails clacking on the tiled floor as they run off.
Luckily I wake up before I have to haul the wagons.
These are the book titles I can remember:
In BIGFOOT’s Wagon:
THE DEFENSE OF THADDEUS A. LEDBETTER
by John Gosselink
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Amulet-Abrams
October 1, 2010
THE GHOSTWRITER SECRET by Mac Barnett,
with illustrations by Adam Rex
[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND BRIXTON BROTHERS BOOK]
Simon & Schuster
October 5, 2010
In MORZANT’s Wagon:
BRAIN JACK by Brian Falkner
[YOUNG ADULT]
Random House
September 28, 2010
ALIEN INVASION AND OTHER INCONVENIENCES
by Brian Yansky
[YOUNG ADULT]
Candlewick
October 12, 2010
THE CURSE OF THE WENDIGO by Rick Yancey
[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO MONSTRUMOLOGIST]
Simon & Schuster
October 12, 2010
In PENNY’s Wagon:
BLOOD ON MY HANDS by Todd Strasser
[YOUNG ADULT]
Egmont USA
September 28, 2010
EMPTY by Suzanne Weyn
[YOUNG ADULT]
Scholastic
October 1, 2010
THE MIRACLE STEALER by Neil Connelly
[YOUNG ADULT]
Arthur A. Levine-Scholastic
October 1, 2010
SUSPECT by Kristin Wolden Nitz
[YOUNG ADULT]
Peachtree
October 1, 2010
THE UNIDENTIFIED by Rae Mariz
[YOUNG ADULT]
Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins
October 5, 2010
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO BEAUTIFUL CREATURES]
Little, Brown
October 12, 2010
TRASH by Andy Mulligan
[YOUNG ADULT]
David Fickling-Random House
October 12, 2010
In NORMAN’s Wagon:
ARCHVILLAIN by Barry Lyga
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Scholastic
October 1, 2010
THE MEMORY BANK by Carolyn Coman,
with illustrations by Rob Shepperson
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Arthur A. Levine-Scholastic
October 1, 2010
THE CANDYMAKERS by Wendy Mass
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Little, Brown
October 5, 2010
AGENT Q, OR THE SMELL OF DANGER! by M.T. Anderson,
with illustrations by Kurt Cyrus
[MIDDLE GRADE—FOURTH IN THE PALS IN PERIL TALES SERIES]
Simon & Schuster
October 19, 2010
In BEVERLY’s Wagon:
PENNY DREADFUL by Laurel Snyder,
with illustrations by Abigail Halpin
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Random House
September 28, 2010
YOU ARE NOT HERE by Samantha Schutz
[YOUNG ADULT]
Push
October 1, 2010
I WILL SAVE YOU by Matt de la Peña
[YOUNG ADULT]
Delacorte-Random House
October 12, 2010
ZORA AND ME by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
[YOUNG ADULT]
Candlewick
October 12, 2010
CROSSING OVER by Anna Kendall
[YOUNG ADULT]
Viking-Penguin
October 14, 2010
In MY Wagon:
DISNEY’S HERO SQUAD: ULTRAHEROES VOL. 2:
RACE FOR THE ULTRAPODS
by Alessandro Ferrari, illustrated by Antonello Dalena
[COMIC]
BOOM! Studios
October 12, 2010
In OLIVER’s Wagon:
MR. ELEPHANTER by Lark Pien
[PICTURE BOOK]
Candlewick
September 28, 2010
ART & MAX by David Wiesner
[PICTURE BOOK]
Clarion-Houghton Mifflin
October 4, 2010
In LENNY’s Wagon:
13 Words by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Maira Kalman
[PICTURE BOOK]
HarperCollins
October 5, 2010
SOCKSQUATCH by Frank W. Dormer
[PICTURE BOOK]
Henry Holt
October 12, 2010
In VIOLET’s Wagon:
BABYMOUSE #13: CUPCAKE TYCOON by Jennifer L. Holm, illustrated by Matt Holm
[COMIC]
Random House
September 28, 2010
OLIVIA GOES TO VENICE by Ian Falconer
[PICTURE BOOK]
Atheneum-Scholastic
September 28, 2010
APRIL AND ESME TOOTH FAIRIES by Bob Graham
[PICTURE BOOK]
Candlewick
October 12, 2010
No comments:
Post a Comment