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Product Description
What if you woke up inside your own dream—and couldn’t get out?
Eleven-year-old Julie Fray is living a nightmare. Her parents are fighting so much she can’t escape—even when she goes to sleep. Every night she has horrible dreams.
Then one night Julie wakes up inside her nightmare, in the studio where her dreams are produced. She learns that if she can find the people responsible for her dreams, she might be able to make them stop. 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 Julie could be trapped inside her own head forever!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1800978 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-29
- Released on: 2008-04-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
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An excellent entry into tweener thriller fantasy; Hartinger has another success on his hands! -- TeenFiction.Suite101.com, June 2007
Dreamquest is a marvelously inventive fantasy, dripping with creative juices and operating, like the best classic tales, on several levels at once. -- David Lubar, Author
Entertaining and humorous...leads to a satisfying conclusion. -- Kirkus Reviews, April 2007
Hartinger deftly moves into the realm of fantasy....Hartinger's winning pairing of a sincere message with hyperbolic humor should resonate. -- Publishers Weekly, May 2007
Hartinger's usual dry humor and clever dialog - he paints real characters, even immersed in a fantasy world. Highly recommended." -- SmartWriters.com, June 2007
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Praise for Dreamquest:
“Hartinger deftly moves into the realm of fantasy….[His] winning pairing of a sincere message with hyperbolic humor should resonate with readers.”—Publishers Weekly
“Entertaining and humorous.”—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Brent Hartinger is the author of many books for teenagers, including Geography Club, The Last Chance Texaco, and Grand & Humble. He lives near Seattle but once lived and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, which may have had something to do with this book, his first for younger readers.
Customer Reviews
powerful character study starring a preadolescent marooned in her nightmares
Her parents' constant fights frighten eleven year old Julie Fray. She is so scared that something bad is going to happen that even when she sleeps she suffers nightmares that she is a pawn on a chessboard with her mom as the white queen and her dad as the black king each giving orders for her to move. The dreams are getting worse and the preadolescent child has no one to turn to as her parents are too caught up with their war to see what it is doing to her. Being awake is as bad if not worse.
This time when she suffers the nightmare, Julie awakens but not to the hostility between her parents pulling on her to their side. Instead somehow she is still inside her nightmare realm. Specifically she finds herself in a studio where Julie's dreams are a big production. Production assistant Roman befriends the bewildered frightened young girl and tells her to find the producer. However Julie has a bigger problem than getting nightmares less frightening. The child actress who portrays her, Vivian has crossed over to the real world and refuses to switch back. If she fails to return to reality, she will be trapped inside her head where a studio produces the nightmare world of Julie Fray.
DREAMQUEST is a powerful character study that hooks the audience once they realize Julie is marooned in her nightmares. The story line is set up so that readers are unsure whether this is a horror tale or a psychological thriller; in either case Julie and the preadolescent audience will agree that she is in deep trouble regardless. This tale of Slumberia is a fantastic novel that will please its pre-teen crowd, but also their parents.
Harriet Klausner
DANGER LURKS BEHIND CLOSED EYES...
DREAMQUEST is a madcap, exciting adventure into the realm of nightmares.
Julie's parents fight so much she feels like they're ripping her apart --but the terrifying nightmares she has every night are even worse. Then her dreams rip a seam and she wakes up in nightmarish Slumberia where a cast of freakish beings create her horrible dreams.
With the help of some unusual friends, she goes on a dangerous quest to end her nightmares. If she can't escape Slumberia before her time runs out, she'll be trapped in her bad dreams forever.
Brent Hartinger is a master of plots with humor, suspense and memorable characters. Readers who enjoy magicical books like HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and heartwarming quests like WIZARD OF OZ will love DREAMQUEST.
Disappointing. Not as engaging as the author's other work.
I was hoping for a better read as I am a fan of the author's other book. This book wants to be science fiction but does not quite make it.
