Malo makes her steal nightmares from her grandmother's safe and proceeds to dose her unhappy victims all over town. Catching Maren dosing her comatose sister with a pleasant dream, the villain Ms. Their strict rule is to not give people dreams (good or bad) without their consent - and most of the story's troubles and ethical dilemmas come about when characters break that rule.

It's the story of middle-school kid Maren Partridge, youngest member of a family whose business and magical specialty is crafting on-demand dreams in the form of sachets to be taken at bedtime.

Parents need to know that Nicole Lesperance's The Nightmare Thief, the first of a two-volume series, revolves around the ability to control people's minds by affecting their dreams. A plan goes badly awry when the protagonists absorb nightmares through their skin and have to complete their tasks while battling hallucinations and telling themselves 'this isn't real!'ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Maren doses her comatose sister with a sweet dream. Malo doses people all over town with nightmares. Or powder that lets someone else manipulate your mind. While there are no real-world drugs, the entire premise of The Nightmare Thief involves people with magical powers concocting sachets to be placed under the tongue at bedtime to induce a particular dream, good or bad - or a dream that just erases everything for a while.

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