Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Briar’s Journal (December 1 to 31, 2013)


Dream Entry*
April 5, 2003

It’s Christmas Eve. Santa calls Bigfoot with a problem. The magic that makes the reindeer fly isn’t working. Bigfoot tells Santa not to worry. He rounds up my friends, three puppies, and a duck and takes them to the North Pole. When they get there, the reindeer are already hooked up to the sleigh. Santa is pacing nervously. He keeps checking his watch. Bigfoot tells him everything will be fine. He instructs everybody to climb onto a reindeer. They do. Blitzen doesn’t look too happy to have Bigfoot sitting on his back.

Everybody is holding a sack. At first I think the sacks are full of toys for all the good little girls and boys, but they aren’t. They’re full of books. Everybody pulls out a book and starts to read aloud. A glowing light surrounds each book. Reindeer ears flick. Reindeer noses twitch. The reindeer start to prance.

“Hurry, Santa!” Bigfoot calls.

Santa jumps into the sleigh just as the reindeer begin to fly. All through the night, the cryptids keep reading to the reindeer to keep them flying.

These are the books they read to the reindeer:


The books BIGFOOT reads:

NEXT
by Kevin Waltman
[YOUNG ADULT]
Cinco Puntos
December 3, 2013

RACING SAVANNAH
by Miranda Kenneally
[YOUNG ADULT]
Sourcebooks Fire-Sourcebooks
December 3, 2013

ONE OR TWO THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT LOVE
by Dyan Sheldon
[YOUNG ADULT]
Candlewick
December 10, 2013

ROOMIES
by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando
[YOUNG ADULT]
Little, Brown-Hachette
December 24, 2014

AFTERPARTY
by Ann Redisch Stampler
[YOUNG ADULT]
Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster
December 31, 2013

THE PROMISE OF AMAZING
by Robin Constantine
[YOUNG ADULT]
Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins
December 31, 2013


The books MORZANT reads:

PHILIP REID SAVES THE STATUE OF FREEDOM
by Eugene Walton and Steven Lapham, 
illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]
Sleeping Bear Press-Thomson Gale
December 1, 2013

TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS: 
THE LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by C.F. Payne
[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]
Disney-Hyperion
December 17, 2013

RUTHERFORD B., WHO WAS HE?: 
POEMS ABOUT OUR PRESIDENTS
by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by John Hendrix
[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]
Disney-Hyperion
December 17, 2013

WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE STORY OF A SONG
by Debbie Levy, 
illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]
Disney-Hyperion
December 17, 2013


The books PENNY reads

THE SYSTEM
by Gemma Malley
[YOUNG ADULT—FINAL IN THE KILLABLES TRILOGY]
Hodder & Stoughton
December 5, 2013

THESE BROKEN STARS
by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE SERIES]
Disney-Hyperion
December 10, 2013

THE INTERRUPTED TALE
by Maryrose Wood, 
with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler
[MIDDLE GRADE—FOURTH IN THE 
INCORRIGIBLE CHILDREN OF ASHTON PLACE SERIES]
Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins
December 17, 2013

ASHES TO ASHES
by Melissa Walker
[YOUNG ADULT]
Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins
December 23, 2013

CONTROL
by Lydia Kang
[YOUNG ADULT]
Dial-Penguin
December 26, 2013


The books THE DUCK reads:

REBEL SPRING
by Morgan Rhodes
[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE 
FALLING KINGDOMS SERIES]
Razorbill-Penguin
December 3, 2013


The books NORMAN reads: 

I EVEN FUNNIER
by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, 
with illustrations by Laura Park
[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND IN THE I FUNNY SERIES]
Little, Brown-Hachette
December 9, 2013

HUNT FOR THE HYDRA
by Jason Fry
[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE 
JUPITER PIRATES SERIES]
HarperCollins
December 23, 2013


The books BEVERLY reads:

SPOILS
by Tammar Stein
[YOUNG ADULT]
Random House
December 10, 2013

KNOCK KNOCK: MY DAD’S DREAM FOR ME
by Daniel Beaty, illustrated by Brian Collier
[PICTURE BOOK]
Little, Brown-Hachette
December 17, 2013


The books OLIVER reads: 

COLOUR FOR CURLEWS
by Renée Treml
[PICTURE BOOK]
Random House Australia
December 1, 2013

ONCE UPON A MEMORY
by Nina Laden, illustrated by Renata Liwksa
[PICTURE BOOK]
Little, Brown-Hachette
December 3, 2013

PAUL MEETS BERNADETTE
by Rosy Lamb
[PICTURE BOOK]
Candlewick
December 10, 2013

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE?
by Lorena Siminovich
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
December 26, 2013


The books LENNY reads

AND THE CARS GO…
by William Bee
[PICTURE BOOK]
Candlewick
December 10, 2013

DOG DAYS
by Karen English, 
illustrated by Laura Freeman
[CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE 
CARVER CHRONICLES]
Clarion-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
December 17, 2013


The books VIOLET reads: 

CONSIDER LOVE: ITS MOODS AND MANY WAYS
by Sandra Boynton
[PICTURE BOOK—REISSUE]
Little Simon-Simon & Schuster
December 3, 2013

EMMA IN PARIS
by Claire Frossard, 
with photographs by Christophe Urbain
[PICTURE BOOK—
SEQUEL TO EMMA’S JOURNEY]
Enchanted Lion
December 10, 2013

LOVE MONSTER
by Rachael Bright
[PICTURE BOOK]
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 24, 2013

PRINCESS PENELOPE AND THE RUNAWAY KITTEN
by Alison Murray
[PICTURE BOOK]
Nosy Crow-Candlewick
December 24, 2013

CATCHING KISSES
by Amy Gibson, 
illustrated by Maria van Lieshout
[PICTURE BOOK]
Feiwel & Friends-Macmillan
December 31, 2013




* 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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