Dream Bender

Author:   Ronald Kidd
Publisher:   Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN:  

9780807517253


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 March 2016
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Format:   Hardback
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Everyone in the City is assigned a job by the choosers—keeper, catcher, computer. Callie Crawford is a computer. She works with numbers: putting them together, taking them apart. Her work is important, but sometimes she wants more. Jeremy Finn is a dreambender. His job is to adjust people's dreams. He and others like him quietly remove thoughts of music and art to keep the people in the City from becoming too focused on themselves and their own feelings rather than on the world. They need to keep the world safe from another Warming. But Jeremy thinks music is beautiful, and when he pops into a dream of Callie singing, he becomes fascinated with her. He begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Defying his community and the role they have established for him, he sets off to find her in the real world. Together, they will challenge their world's expectations. But how far will they go to achieve their own dreams?

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Author:   Ronald Kidd
Publisher:   Albert Whitman & Company
Imprint:   Albert Whitman & Company
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780807517253


ISBN 10:   0807517259
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 March 2016
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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Kidd's spare prose winds around dialogue and description, creating images for readers as vivid as Jeremy's dreams. Short sentences will speed reluctant readers through the text. This read-alike of Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember will make for meaty group discussion. School Library Journal, March 1, 2016 Kidd tells an enjoyable story that features both appealing protagonists and well-presented ideas about the importance of creativity and following one's dreams. Publishers Weekly, February 12, 2016 Comparison's to Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember will be inevitable, and though Kidd's novel may not be quite as epic in scope, it will likely still entice new generations of middle-grade readers. Booklist Online, February 16, 2016


Comparison's to Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember will be inevitable, and though Kidd's novel may not be quite as epic in scope, it will likely still entice new generations of middle-grade readers. --Booklist Online Kidd tells an enjoyable story that features both appealing protagonists and well-presented ideas about the importance of creativity and following one's dreams. --Publishers Weekly Kidd's spare prose winds around dialogue and description, creating images for readers as vivid as Jeremy's dreams. Short sentences will speed reluctant readers through the text. This read-alike of Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember will make for meaty group discussion.


Kidd tells an enjoyable story that features both appealing protagonists and well-presented ideas about the importance of creativity and following one's dreams. Publishers Weekly, February 12, 2016 Comparison's to Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember will be inevitable, and though Kidd's novel may not be quite as epic in scope, it will likely still entice new generations of middle-grade readers. Booklist Online, February 16, 2016 Kidd's spare prose winds around dialogue and description, creating images for readers as vivid as Jeremy's dreams. Short sentences will speed reluctant readers through the text. This read-alike of Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember will make for meaty group discussion. School Library Journal, March 1, 2016


Kidd's spare prose winds around dialogue and description, creating images for readers as vivid as Jeremy's dreams. Short sentences will speed reluctant readers through the text. This read-alike of Lois Lowry's The Giver and Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember will make for meaty group discussion. School Library Journal, March 1, 2016


Author Information

Ronald Kidd is the author of ten novels for young readers, including the highly acclaimed Night on Fire and Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial. His novels of adventure, comedy, and mystery have received the Children's Choice Award, an Edgar Award nomination, and honors from the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. He is a two-time O'Neill playwright who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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