The Fairy Chronicles: Dragonfly And The Web Of Dreams

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Illustrations By: Tara Larsen Chang

Inside you is the power to do anything

The Web of Dreams has been destroyed and every night more and more nightmares are slipping into people's dreams!

Jennifer, or Dragonfly to her fairy friends, is chosen to lead a fairy team to discover what happened to the Web and rebuild it immediately. To do so, they must make a dangerous journey, hunt down the Dream Spider and convince him to weaveaway the bad dreams.

But the Dream Spider is far away, and danger might be much closer than they think ...

What if you discovered you had magical fairy powers? Meet the girls of The Fairy Chronicles, otherwise normal girls like you who are blessed by Mother Nature with special gifts. Their extraordinary adventures will change the world!

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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• Chapter One Saturday Morning
• Chapter Two Fairy Friends
• Chapter Three Bad Dreams
• Chapter Four Fairy Circle
• Chapter Five The Journey
• Chapter Six Trolls
• Chapter Seven The Dream Spider
• Chapter Eight Home to Better Dreams
• Fairy Fun
• Fairy Facts

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Early Saturday morning in September, Jennifer Sommerset sat on her porch, waiting for her three friends to arrive to spend the day. School had just started two weeks ago, and this was a special three-day weekend due to Labor Day. Jennifer had finished her homework the night before in anticipation of spending all of Saturday with her friends.

Her arm around one knee, the other leg dangling, she sat swinging in the porch swing and daydreaming about the summer fun she had had with her friends. Like many nine-year-olds, Jennifer spent the summer swimming, skating, reading, climbing trees, playing video games, attending camp, and having sleepovers with friends. But she also did other activities that were very important, and some that were very secret. Excerpted from Dragonfly and the Web of Dreams All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-4-In this second installment in the series, nine-year-old Jennifer, who suffers from insomnia, and her three friends make a difficult journey to the home of the imposing Dream Spider because everyone's sleep has been disturbed by nightmares. They must convince him to cut short his holiday and rebuild the magical Web of Dreams, which protects the world from bad dreams. Each girl has a secret fairy identity and unique gifts. Traveling overnight with their fairy mentors and the Sandman, the heroines encounter some confused trolls and an evil dream spirit that has possessed the Sandman. When a wicked gremlin tries to harm the Dream Spider, Dragonfly uses her special talents of "speed and agility" to save the day. The fanciful narrative is sprinkled with fairy lore and a series of sweet but unremarkable illustrations. Although the plot is predictable and the conflict is neatly resolved with little suspense, this addition to the series has plenty of child appeal. Fans of Emily Rodda's "Fairy Realm Series" (HarperCollins) might also enjoy this book. An interactive Web site complements the narrative.-Linda L. Walkins, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton, MA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.