Dream Entry*
July 28, 2001
It’s spring and the ice has broken on the little orange juice pond behind the library. A pair of ducks paddle by my friends who are sitting in the grass along the pond’s edge. They are fishing—both the ducks and my friends. The ducks are diving down into the orange juice while my friends hold long branches with shoestrings tied to the ends. Morzant baits a hook with a Rice Krispies Treat.
Nobody is getting any bites and I’m feeling bored. Since I didn’t bring anything to read, I pass the time trying to guess where the ducks will resurface. One is under the orange juice so long that I start to worry. Then he waddles up from behind me.
“Pardon me,” he says as he wades back into the orange juice.
He dives under again. This time he reappears out of thin air behind Beverly. At that moment Beverly shouts, but not because of the teleporting duck.
“I’ve got one!” she says.
Something under the orange juice is pulling on her shoestring. Hard. Her branch makes a twanging sound as it bows. Beverly struggles to reel in her catch. Soon it’s on shore.
“It’s a keeper!” she says.
It’s not a fish at all, but a book. She doesn’t bother to wipe it off. She puts it, dripping with orange juice, into a backpack.
Soon all my other friends are shouting and pulling in their catches, too. This what they caught:
BIGFOOT’s catch:
I’LL BE THERE by Holly Goldberg Sloan
[YOUNG ADULT]
Little, Brown-Hachette
May 17, 2011
AWAKEN by Katie Kacvinsky
[YOUNG ADULT]
Houghton Mifflin
May 23, 2011
BEAUTY QUEENS by Libba Bray
[YOUNG ADULT]
Scholastic Press-Scholastic, Inc.
May 24, 2011
NOTES FROM THE BLENDER
by Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin
[YOUNG ADULT]
Egmont USA
May 24, 2011
SPINNING OUT by David Stahler
[YOUNG ADULT]
Chronicle
May 25, 2011
THE BEDMAS CONSPIRACY by Deborah Sherman
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
May 31, 2011
a rusty miscroscope
WRAPPED by Jennifer Bradbury
[YOUNG ADULT]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
May 24, 2011
THE GRAND PLAN TO FIX EVERYTHING
by Uma Krishnaswami, with illustrations by Abigail Halpin
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
May 24, 2011
SAVING ARMPIT by Natalie Hyde
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
May 31, 2011
DESPERATE MEASURES by Laura Summers
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Putnam-Penguin
May 12, 2011
FLUTTER: THE STORY OF FOUR SISTERS AND
AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY by Erin Moulton
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Philomel-Penguin
May 12, 2011
JUNONIA by Kevin Henkes
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Greenwillow-HarperCollins
May 24, 2011
WILD WINGS by Gill Lewis,
with illustrations by Yuta Onoda
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
May 24, 2011
WOW! OCEAN! by Robert Neubecker
[PICTURE BOOK]
Hyperion-Disney
May 17, 2011
BLACKOUT by John Rocco
[PICTURE BOOK]
Hyperion-Disney
May 24, 2011
IF ROCKS COULD SING: A DISCOVERED ALPHABET
by Leslie McGuirk
[PICTURE BOOK]
Tricycle Press-Random House
May 24, 2011
EARTH TO CLUNK by Pam Smallcomb,
illustrated by Joe Berger
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
May 12, 2011
BEAR AND ME by Max Kornell
[PICTURE BOOK]
Putnam-Penguin
May 12, 2011
APPLE PIE ABC by Alison Murray
[PICTURE BOOK]
Hyperion-Disney
May 31, 2011
* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.
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