Product Details
Ginee Seo Books, August 2006
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0689850425
ISBN-13: 9780689850424
Ages: 12 and up
Grades: 7 and up
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Notable Children's Book Nominee
- CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List (VT)
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Description
In the city of the dead,
a dreamer awakens....
Young Babak has a magnificent gift: He can dream the future. Mitra, his brave older sister, is sworn to protect him. For them to survive living on the streets, she must do whatever is necessary -- including using her brother's talent for profit.
When Babak is asked to dream for a powerful Magus, he receives a mysterious vision of two stars dancing in the night. Determined to solve this prophetic riddle, the Magus takes the boy and his sister on an arduous journey across the desert. What they discover will change the world in a way that no dream could ever predict....
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