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Dreamsleeves
By Coleen Murtagh Paratore
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 6 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | n/a | 4.3 | 49716 |
A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . .
Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there's a lot standing in her way. While she should be enjoying the summer with friends, Aislinn is kept under lock and key and put in charge of her younger siblings. The average girl might give up, but not Aislinn. A person, she says, should write their dreams on their sleeve, putting them out there for the world to see, because there's a good chance that someone might come along and help you make your dream come true. What begins as a plea for help for her father to stop drinking, turns into a spark that has the whole community making their own dreamsleeves. At times heartbreaking, DREAMSLEEVES is also surprising, powerful, and luminously hopeful. Everyone will see a little of themselves in Aislinn, a girl with talent, ambition, and big dreams.
Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there's a lot standing in her way. While she should be enjoying the summer with friends, Aislinn is kept under lock and key and put in charge of her younger siblings. The average girl might give up, but not Aislinn. A person, she says, should write their dreams on their sleeve, putting them out there for the world to see, because there's a good chance that someone might come along and help you make your dream come true. What begins as a plea for help for her father to stop drinking, turns into a spark that has the whole community making their own dreamsleeves. At times heartbreaking, DREAMSLEEVES is also surprising, powerful, and luminously hopeful. Everyone will see a little of themselves in Aislinn, a girl with talent, ambition, and big dreams.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN-13: 9780545310208
ISBN-10: 0545310202
Published on 4/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
Book Reviews (4)
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I love this book I have read it 5 times
i think its a really good book. Its about this girl name Aislinn and she lives with her mom, dad, nana, brothers and sisters names beck, callie, dooley, and eddie and they had a baby on the way. She doesn't get to spend time with her friends because she has to stay home and clean, teach the kids, and feed and bath them so she went to a church thing and and they had to put their dreams in a box so she was thinking why put it in a box when u can put it on your sleeves so everyone can see it and help it come true so she got these tags and wrote her dream on it and put it on her sleeve so when her parents and other people would see it and help make it come true, her first one was to get a new bathing suit and her mom saw it and got her one then her second one was to go to the pool party and she got to then her last one was to make her dad stop drinking because he had a drinking problem so she put it on her sleeve and wore it to church and the church man saw it and came by her house and talk to her dad about it but he kept drinking then her neighbor Maria saw it to and she had made her dad some appointments to go to a AA meeting and help her dad stop then he stop drinking after it so she went to the church and made a announcement about it and people start doing it and it made alot of peoples dreams come true, there was this one man at the church who was really quiet and would always look at aislinn and when he heard about dreamsleeves he tried it and came up to her and thanked her and she looked at his dream and it said "please let me meet my grandchilden" and he did, they were playing around with him and he looked happy so i would read this book if i were u.
So far this is a really good book about a girl with many dreams are are hard to come true with her family the way it is. She decides to put her dreams on her sleeves with stickers to make them come true, by page 120 two out of two have come true!