Dream of Night (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416948995)

Untamable. Damaged. Angry. Once full of promise and life, now lost in the shadows of resentment and detachment, this is Dream of Night's story--and it is also Shiloh's. One is a thoroughbred racehorse, the other an eleven-year-old foster child. Starved to the bone, Dream of Night is still a very powerful animal, kicking, bucking, screaming to show his strength. Shiloh has been starved in other ways--starved of affection, starved of stability and she lashes out too...with sarcasm. This injured and abused racehorse has a lot in common with punky Shiloh and by chance they both find themselves under the care of Jessalyn DiLima--a last stop for each before the state takes more drastic measures--sending the girl to a "residential facility" and the horse to a vet...for euthanizing.

Jess is giving them a second chance, a last chance--but she fosters animals and children like this for a reason--she's a little broken, too. And she knows what it's like to have lost nearly everything she loves. As the horse warms up to the girl and the girl lets her guard down for the horse, the three of them become an unlikely family. They recognize their similarities in order to heal their pasts, but not before one last tragedy threatens to take it all away.

Author: Heather Henson
ISBN-10: 1416948996
ISBN-13: 9781416948995
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.48h x 6.32w x 0.92d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 138336 / Dream of Night

Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee
Award: Great Stone Face Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 04/01/2010 pg. 159
Kirkus Review - Children 04/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2010 pg. 50
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 pg. 341 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Heather Henson lives on a farm in Kentucky with her husband and three children, is the managing director of the Pioneer Playhouse, and is the author of several critically acclaimed picture books and novels, including Dream of Night, The Whole Sky, and the Christopher Award-winning That Book Woman.