Thursday, March 17, 2011

Briar’s Journal (March 17 to April 5, 2011)

Dream Entry*

October 15, 2005


Everything is green, not just the grass. The sky is green. The birds flying overhead are green. There’s a green kid in a green shirt flying a green kite. His green little sister is eating a green ice cream cone.


I spot Morzant. He’s green, too, as usual. He looks over his shoulder as he runs into a field of green beans.


A green Bigfoot passes by me and shouts for me to join him.


“Hurry! We’ll follow him to his pot of gold!”


“I didn’t know Morzant had a pot of gold,” I say, catching up and running beside Bigfoot.


“All leprechauns do,” Bigfoot says.


We chase Morzant through the field of green beans, across a green creak, and over a hill covered with four-leaf clover.


“We’re in luck now,” Bigfoot says. “He’s got nowhere to go.”


Morzant has stopped running. He’s blocked by a rainbow. It’s green, but also red, orange, yellow, and indigo.


“Where’s the violet?” I ask.


“I’m here!” says a green beagle puppy from the top of the rainbow.


She slides down the rainbow and into an enormous pot at its base. She comes out of the pot carrying books in her mouth. Then all my green friends, and two other green beagle puppies, slide down the rainbow into the pot. They all come out with books.


“My gold!” Morzant cries.


“Too bad,” Bigfoot says as he reaches into the pot for some books.


Morzant turns to me.


“No gold for you,” he says. “You’re not green.”


That’s when he pinches me and I wake up.


These are the books my green friends took from the pot:



BIGFOOT’s books:

GEEK FANTASY NOVEL by E. Archer

[YOUNG ADULT]

Scholastic

April 1, 2011


THIS GIRL IS DIFFERENT by JJ Johnson

[YOUNG ADULT]

Peachtree

April 1, 2011


OKAY FOR NOW by Gary D. Schmidt

[YOUNG ADULT]

Clarion-Houghton Mifflin

April 5, 2011




I see MORZANT sneak away with these two books:

“SCRIBBLING WOMEN”: TRUE TALES FROM ASTONISHING LIVES by Marthe Jocelyn

[YOUNG ADULT]

Tundra

March 22, 2011


THE UNDERTAKERS: RISE OF THE CORPSES by Ty Drago

[YOUNG ADULT]

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

April 1, 2011




PENNY’s books:

CHIME by Franny Billingsley

[YOUNG ADULT]

Dial-Penguin

March 17, 2011


FLIP by Martyn Bedford

[YOUNG ADULT]

Wendy Lamb-Random House

April 5, 2011


ROTTERS by Daniel Kraus

[YOUNG ADULT]

Delacorte-Random House

April 5, 2011




NORMAN’s books:

THE LOSER LIST by Holly Kowitt

[MIDDLE GRADE]

Scholastic

April 1, 2011




BEVERLY’s books:

BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY by Ruta Sepetys

[YOUNG ADULT]

Philomel-Penguin

March 22, 2011


PURPLE DAZE by Sherry Shahan

[YOUNG ADULT]

Running Press

March 22, 2011


STONES FOR MY FATHER by Trilby Kent

[YOUNG ADULT]

Tundra

March 22, 2011


PEACEFUL PIECES: POEMS AND QUILTS ABOUT PEACE

by Anna Grossnickle Hines

[PICTURE BOOK]

Henry Holt

March 29, 2011


THE YEAR WE WERE FAMOUS by Carole Estby Dagg

[YOUNG ADULT]

Clarion-Houghton Mifflin

April 4, 2011




OLIVER’s books:

ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD by George Ella Lyon,

illustrated by Katherine Tillotson

[PICTURE BOOK]

Richard Jackson-Atheneum-Simon & Schuster

March 22, 2011


BIRDSONG by Ellie Sandall

[PICTURE BOOK]

Egmont USA

March 22, 2011


PERFECT SQUARE by Michael Hall

[PICTURE BOOK]

Greenwillow-HarperCollins

March 29, 2011


THE LOUD BOOK by Deborah Underwood,

illustrated by Renata Liwska

[PICTURE BOOK]

Houghton Mifflin

April 4, 2011


QUEEN OF THE FALLS by Chris Van Allsburg

[PICTURE BOOK]

Houghton Mifflin

April 4, 2011




LENNY’s books:

CARS GALORE by Peter Stein, illustrated by Bob Staake

[PICTURE BOOK]

Candlewick

March 22, 2011


CHICKEN, CHICKEN, DUCK! by Nadia Krilanovich

[PICTURE BOOK]

Tricycle Press-Random House

March 22, 2011


PIRATE VS. PIRATE: THE TERRIFIC TALE OF A

BIG, BLUSTERY MARITIME MATCH by Mary Quattlebaum,

illustrated by Alexandra Boiger

[PICTURE BOOK]

Hyperion-Disney

March 22, 2011


SAY HELLO TO ZORRO! by Carter Goodrich

[PICTURE BOOK]

Simon & Schuster

March 22, 2011




VIOLET’s books:

SHOUT! SHOUT IT OUT! by Denise Fleming

[PICTURE BOOK]

Henry Holt

March 29, 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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