The Book of Stolen Dreams (The Stolen Dreams Adventures): 1

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In the days of the Emperor, if soldiers came to arrest you, they offered a polite smile, a bunch of flowers, or a box of chocolate hearts.

It felt like we were given a lot of clues, bits and pieces to put together along with our two main characters, and while it wasn't too complex, I had moments where I failed to piece the puzzles.They get the precious book but Felix gets arrested by the brutal President Charles Malstains' soldiers and put into prison. The Book of Stolen Dreams is an absorbing, tense adventure set in a timeless city, where two siblings risk everything to try to bring to an end a ruthless dictatorship. She teaches us all that it's OK to be afraid, helpless and vulnerable within this book and that it's not anything to be ashamed of.

I'm a film and TV buff and I run a film club for friends which we carried on over zoom during lockdown.When the children discover the astonishing, magical truth about the Book, they resolve to do everything in their power to stop it falling into his hands. Required reading for anyone who fell for the Wild’s resourceful defender Kester and his band of intrepid fauna, it lays out how the dreaded red-eye – and Kester – came to be. When Rachel and Robert are passed a stolen book by their librarian father, they have to go on the run and protect it at all costs. Rachel isn’t sure why the secret she’s keeping is so important but she knows it holds the key to freeing Brava from its cruel, tyrannical dictator and the only way she’ll ever get to see her father again. The only existence siblings, Rachel and Robert, have ever known has been a dreary one under the rule of Charles Malstain.

All books have a certain magic, but the Book of Stolen Dreams is like no other - this book has the power to grant eternal life. Illustration: Denzell Dankwah L-r: Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, Leomie Anderson and Riz Ahmed from Sophia Thakur and Denzell Dankwah’s Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength. The author is a filmmaker and it shows - the chase scenes in this book especially felt like they were right out of a movie! Porque mira en los juegos del hambre aún tienen que luchar contra gente de su edad pero es que estos niños son unos cracks que escapan constantemente de soldados y gente entrenada… Y encima te caen muy bien enseguida.The story is about a boy and a girl trying to find the missing last page of a mysterious book that they are given. Her journey in the book is actually to discover bravery, to discover that she has a right, as a girl, to have a voice.

I felt such powerful emotions reading about Robert and Rachel in the last chapter, it just overwhelmed me, which I didn't expect, but there you go. It becomes hard to remember what happiness even is though when you are far from your home and your family, and feel helpless against the tyrant ruining your country.Your eyes are musical, and your nose gives me the strongest impression that you have a piano in your living room. His arc, although perhaps predictable, was satisfying nonetheless, and he is a memorable character that has stayed with me days after finishing the book. The sudden rise of fragmentary nationalism, in Britain, Europe, Russia, America, Turkey, India - this is something that was not expected. The Book of Stolen Dreams will make a welcome addition to the shelf of any fan of middle-grade fantasy. I was really happy to turn the final page and discover that there is a sequel planned however, with a brand new mystery to resolve.