The Girl Who Could Not Dream

Name: The Girl Who Could Not Dream
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Sarah Beth Durst
ISBN: 9781501901935

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/03/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Children's Humor, Fantasy Stories, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

"A perfect combination of adventure, humor, and pure imagination!" -Jessica Day George, New York Times best-selling author of Tuesdays at the Castle "Funny, scary, and endlessly inventive." -Bruce Coville, author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Sophie loves the hidden shop below her parents' bookstore, where dreams are secretly bought and sold. When the dream shop is robbed and her parents go missing, Sophie must unravel the truth to save them. Together with her best friend-a wisecracking and fanatically loyal monster named Monster-she must decide whom to trust with her family's carefully guarded secrets. Who will help them, and who will betray them?

About Sarah Beth Durst

SARAH BETH DURST is the author of over twenty-five fantasy books for adults, teens, and kids, including The Queens of Renthia series, Drink Slay Love, and Spark. She has won an American Library Association Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for the Andre Norton Nebula Award three times. She lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on October 02, 2016

Full review, originally posted on www.fantasyliterature.com: Monsters, glittery flying ponies, ninja bunnies and other fantastical creatures inhabit the pages of The Girl Who Could Not Dream, Sarah Beth Durst’s enchanting new middle grade fantasy adventure novel. Sophie’s parents own a secretive drea......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on July 23, 2017

Glittery unicorns pooping rainbows. Pink ninja rabbits. Wise-cracking, monster sidekicks. Dastardly villains. Tell me seriously: how could this book be anything but pure GOLD??!! But if you’re still not sold, (did you read the part about the RAINBOW POOPING UNICORNS??? C’mon now...) a bit of backgrou......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 17, 2014

Ugh, so good. This is one of those, "Why didn't I think of that idea?!" books. As usual, Durst gives us the perfect mix of whimsy and creepy, with a healthy dash of humor mixed in. Sophie and her pet, Monster, were just so delightful, and I loved her parents as well. It's so nice to see real parents......more

Goodreads review by Jules on November 09, 2015

The Girl Who Could Not Dream is a fun and magical fantasy adventure that has a hint of The BFG meets The Neverending Story. I found it both funny and touching at times, and even had tears welling up at one point. I loved the bookshop that served up homemade cupcakes, and had a hidden shop in the basem......more