Dream Life

February 1, 2010
Gr 8-10-In this sequel to "Dream Girl" (Delacorte, 2008), Claire Voyante, a New York City 10th grader with psychic powers, bemoans her friend Becca's distance while puzzling over the mixed signals sent by Becca's brother, a college freshman. Then she discovers that the new "friends" Becca has been hanging out with are actually members of a semisecret society called the Blue Moon, and Becca convinces them to invite Claire to join. Claire quickly becomes involved in a plot to reinforce the weak, central cable on the Brooklyn Bridge with a plutonium lining. (If the cable were to be replaced by the city, the bridge would lose its landmark status.) The project is imperiled by the theft of the Moons' top-secret pink iPod. The plot is improbable and cluttered with distractions. The many characters are poorly developed and lack consistency. As in "Dream Girl", Claire's psychic powers are almost entirely peripheral to the story. Only for libraries where the first book is popular."Eliza Langhans, Hatfield Public Library, MA"

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