Dream Journal

DREAM JOURNAL by Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Category: Contemporary
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 9/15/06
Publisher: Hyperion
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Rating: 5 Stars

Livy Moore is sixteen years old, and facing something no sixteen-year-old should have to face.

Her mother is dying.

Upon learning this, upon hearing for certain that it is inevitable, Livy shuts herself off from her friends, from her family, and
from her own life.

Recording it all in her journal, Livy shares with readers the powerful emotions involved in love, loss, and life. She’s forced out
of her hiding place, forced to confront the reality that hiding from life will not make it all go away and will not make it any
easier.

DREAM JOURNAL is a painful, honest, and wonderfully written story that should not be missed. Populated by realistic
characters and full of the emotions that make Livy’s story real, it’s a sad, hopeful story, and one readers will not soon forget.