The Nightmare Thief
Chapters (38)
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Back Cover
Front Cover
Title Page
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Copyright
Copyright © 2021 by Nicole Lesperance
Cover and internal design © 2021 by Sourcebooks
Front cover design by Jordan Kost/Sourcebooks
Jacket design by Allison Sundstrom/Sourcebooks
Cover and internal illustrations © Sourcebooks
Cover illustration and internal illustrations by Federica Frenna
Internal design by Danielle McNaughton/Sourcebooks
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.
Published by Sourcebooks Young Readers, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lesperance, Nicole, author.
Title: The nightmare thief / Nicole Lesperance.
Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Young Readers, [2021] | Series: The nightmare thief ; 1 | Audience: Ages 8. | Audience: Grades 4-6. | Summary: When Maren breaks the strict rules of her family’s dream shop to help her comatose sister, she is caught and blackmailed by a woman with evil plans for the town of Rockpool Bay.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020034485 | (hardcover) | (epub)
Subjects: CYAC: Dreams--Fiction. | Nightmares--Fiction. | Coma--Fiction. | Family life--Fiction. | Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L4732 Nig 2021 | DDC [Fic]--dc23
Contents
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover
For Isla and Neil. Thanks for the disco donuts!
One
Maren Partridge wondered what her sister dreamed about. She wondered if people in comas even had dreams. And she wondered if she’d ever find the perfect present for Hallie, who’d lain in a hospital bed for weeks, fast asleep like some sad fairy-tale princess. The fact that it was Hallie’s birthday made the need to find the exact, perfect thing so intense that Maren had cracked under the pressure. She’d visited every store in her seaside town, walked every inch of the rocky beach, searched every website she could think of. But none of the presents were right.
A pair of extra-fluffy fleece pajamas.
A set of noise-canceling headphones.
Recordings of herself reading three of Hallie’s favorite books, to go along with the headphones.