Book Descriptions
for Dangerous Spaces by Margaret Mahy
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The power and danger of dreams, and their threat to reality if they become more enticing than the actual world is creatively explored in Flora and Anthea's story. Following the death of her parents Anthea moves in with Flora's family, and the two cousins begin to share sinister nightly dreams. Anthea must decide whether to fill the dangerous spaces around her with the warm, but imperfect, reality of her cousin's family, or to remain isolated in her grief and guilt. Mahy's fluent prose expertly captures the illusory bizarreness of dreams and the down-to-earth realities of family relationships. (Ages 10-13)
CCBC Choices 1991. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1991. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Flora has always known that her house is haunted. But things have taken a sinister turn since her orphaned cousin Anthea moved in. Frightening scenes are played out in the night--and in the girls' dreams. Although they don't get along, the two must work together to escape their nightmares--before they get trapped forever.
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