What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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► UNSOLVED: One specific book > The only thing I can remember is a motel and the word star may be in it. I read it at the library a lot when I was like 10 in the early 90s

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message 1: by Jasmine (new)

Jasmine Dean | 1 comments I can see like a vague cover of the book in my head and I don’t know if Motel is in the title of the book or if there’s was just a picture of it and it has something to do with Stardust maybe or just star. It was a young adult book and I would see it at the library in like 1992 and 1993. I don’t even know if I would remember the content or the plot of the book but I think I would know if I saw the cover.


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Daisy (daisyporter) | 1200 comments What does the cover look like?


message 4: by bookel (new)

bookel | 4022 comments Here at the Scenic Vu Motel by Thelma Hatch Wyss
Was the cover similar to this?


message 5: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart | 28652 comments Into the Dream?

The first dream did not seem strange to him. It was night; he was standing at the edge of a large empty field, trying to move toward a glowing object floating over the center of the field.

It was a particularly vivid dream. He had such a strong sense of really being there, that when he awoke in the middle of the night, he did not know for a moment where he was. But then dreams are often vivid, and Paul did not remember it — until several nights later, when the dream came again.

This time there were several differences. He seemed a little closer to the glowing object, though he still could not tell what it was. To the left he could see an unfamiliar low building with the word Stardust floating over it.


message 6: by Kris (new)

Kris | 54930 comments Mod
Amazon's short "Look Inside" preview of Into the Dream by William Sleator - Rainbowheart's suggestion:
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Dream-Wil... There are different cover images

Kirkus Review:
"Maybe we should call the police," Paul suggests. "And tell them what? That we're getting messages from a dog?" says Francine. Paul and Francine are seventh-grade classmates thrown together because they're both experiencing the same terrifying recurrent dream. It turns out too that they can communicate without words. But how so? Well, they trace their common experience to a Nevada motel-stay with divorcing mothers four years earlier, when a pregnant woman, there with her pregnant dog, encountered a flying saucer in the motel parking lot. Now the two offspring have even stronger ESP than Paul and Francine; Noah, the human child, also has psychokinetic powers, and Cookie, the dog, can see the future. That's why the two strange men are following all the children. ...



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