Author: JB Malatji
Publisher: Jacob B Malatji (Pty) Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Tom's mundane existence underwent a profound transformation when he discovered the extraordinary potential of his newfound ability. Dreams became the vivid canvas for his imagination, offering a realm where he could soar through the skies, converse with talking animals, and embark on incredible adventures. Unbeknownst to him, this revelation marked only the inception of a journey that would blur the lines between the waking world and the enchanting domain of dreams. As Tom delved deeper into the fantastical dreamscape, he encountered beings that defied the laws of nature. Majestic, winged lions left trails of sparkling stardust in their wake, while friendly sprites flitted between the branches of luminescent trees, their laughter echoing like wind chimes. In the Dreamer's Chamber, where dreams intertwined in a delicate dance, Tom sensed a disturbance. The ethereal Dream Keepers reflected concern, revealing a looming threat—The Dream Thief, a dark echo born from forgotten nightmares, harboured malevolent intentions to exploit children's dreams. On a crisp afternoon, bathed in golden sunlight streaming through the library's windows, Tom was drawn to an unexplored section. In a forgotten corner where time seemed to slow, he discovered a peculiar book—a tome unlike any other. Nestled between weathered spines and forgotten tales, the enigmatic Dreamer's Code awaited. The library, once a familiar haven, transformed into a portal to the unknown as Tom deciphered ancient symbols, embarking on a magical adventure where the ordinary converged with the extraordinary. Each page of the cryptic tome revealed not just symbols, but a narrative woven into the fabric of dreams—the forgotten prophecy. In the glow of a single candle, Tom read about a time when dreams held the power to shape reality. The prophecy spoke of a chosen Dreamer destined to traverse the Dream Realm and restore balance disrupted by encroaching darkness. As night fell, Tom found himself drawn back into the mystical embrace of "The Boy Called Dreamer." The prophecy's words resonated with the symbols he had deciphered, realizing that he was the chosen Dreamer fated to embark on a quest beyond the waking world. The weight of destiny settled on Tom's young shoulders, eliciting a mix of excitement and trepidation. The Dream Realm unfolded before Tom like a canvas painted with the hues of imagination—enchanted landscapes adorned with floating islands of cotton candy clouds and rivers sparkling with starlight wishes. Amidst this dreamscape, three radiant figures emerged—Lumara, Zephyr, and Whisper, the Dream Keepers. Lumara embodied the hopes within every dream, Zephyr symbolized the freedom of flight, and Whisper held the secrets lurking in dream shadows. Now, the once-enchanted Dream Realm faced imminent peril, and Tom, as the chosen Dreamer, bore the weight of preserving its existence amidst encroaching shadows.
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188356
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .
Author: Yuyi Morales
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823440559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. From the author-illustrator of Bright Star, Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise that you can make better tomorrows. This lovingly-illustrated picture book memoir looks at the myriad gifts migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own strengths wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. The lyrical text is complemented by sumptuously detailed illustrations, rich in symbolism. Also included are a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book. A parallel Spanish-language edition, Soñadores, is also available. Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award! A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book A New York Times Bestseller Recipient of the Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award A 2019 Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Recipient An Anna Dewdney Read Together Honor Book Named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com-- and many more! A Junior Library Guild selection A Eureka! Nonfiction Honoree A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307119726
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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A classic Little Critter book perfect for Mother's Day! Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter is off to the grocery store with his mom and siblings in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether he wants to push the cart, pick the best apples, or get his sister out of the candy aisle, both parents and children alike will relate to this beloved story. A perfect way to teach kids about being on their best behavior!
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606239400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world
Author: Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author: Alberto Ledesma
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
ISBN: 9780814254400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188380
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed . . . even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves. Jordan Hennessy knows she will not survive if the dreaming fails. So she plunges into a dark underworld in order to find an object that may sustain her. Carmen Farooq-Lane is afraid of the dreamers -- which is why she's agreed to hunt them down. The closer she gets, though, the more complicated her feelings become. Will the dreamers destroy the world . . . or will the world be destroyed trying to eliminate the dreamers? In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits -- and shows what happens when they start to break.
Author: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101647930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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An inspiring portrait of one of the world's most loved artists There was once a boy named Henri, whose dreams were full of color even though his hometown was dreary and gray. His parents expected him to learn a trade when he grew up, but being a law clerk bored him, and he continued to dream of a colorful, exciting life, and of being noticed. Then Henri started painting . . . and kept painting and dreaming and working at his craft until he'd become one of the most admired and famous artists in the world. This lyrical, visually rich picture book is more than an excellent biography; at its core, this remarkable book is an encouragement to never give up on your dreams.
Author: Priscilla Galloway
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613286497
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Haunted by terrifying dreams of snakes, Dusa goes to a clinic in Greece where two mysterious doctors, the Gordon sisters, promise to cure her of her nightmares.
