About the Book
Title: Raising Sleeping Stones (The Orora Crona Chronicles, Book One) | Author: P.H.T. Bennet Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy |Book Description: ***Winner of a 2013 Newbury C omics Award!***
Wh en sisters Kiva and DeeDee Stone discover a mysterious plot that threatens them and everything they care about, they have to take a crash course in the ancient art of DreamKeeping to survive. As two elder DreamKeepers lead them up the Varruvyen river to the Eyle of Return, they show the girls how to gain drea m powers greater than anything they had ever imagined. But can they become strong e nough to face the monsters that haunt their dreams at night, strong enough to fight the enemies that draw nearer each day? The answer lies somewhere in the bro ken history of Orora Crona, the Valley of Dreams lost centuries ago, and whoever can piec e it together first will rule for centuries to come.
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Kiva looked closely at the sun
’
s golden face. Wavy rays representing shimmering heat
radiated out from it. Its cheeks were plump, the lips f
ull and curved, the nose wide, and
the eyes were a little almond-shaped, like hers. In the m
iddle of its forehead was a weird
circle with six curving parts swirling around a six-pointed st
ar. She
’
d never seen the sun
drawn like that. Wondering what was on the back of the pendant
, Kiva turned it
over.
The instant she saw the moon
’
s closed eyes, her hair flew back in the wind, her stomac
h
dropped, and she was pressed back against the cushions of a ves
sel that was flying just
inches above the river. She jerked her head back up and foun
d she was in the back of a
crescent-shaped boat piloted by an old man sitting up front.
She was about to call out to
him when he pointed at a tree that had fallen across the ri
ver and shouted,
“
When you get
here, you must take a detour that even old Jacques didn
’
t know about! Hold on!
”
Before she could, though, he turned the boat around so quickl
y that Kiva was thrown
against the side of her boat and the wind was knocked out of
her. She only got her breath
back when he straightened out and followed the river back do
wn.
“
Look there!
”
he shouted moments later
.
“
Turn right between the tall twins!
”
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