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Dusa, who wants to rid her sleep of her dreams about snakes, travels with the Gordon sisters to their clinic in Greece, but their young servant, Perse, warns Dusa that the sisters may do more evil than good.
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Priscilla Galloway is the author of Truly Grim Tales, an acclaimed short story collection, and of an adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon. She has also written three works set in ancient Greece, ten picture books for children, and one book of adult nonfiction. She has edited several anthologies, and her poetry and short stories have appeared in magazines and scholarly journals and have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Priscilla Galloway has taught in high schools and universities and has been honored as Teacher of the Year by the Ontario Council of Teachers of English. Born in Montreal, she has lived, written, taught, and scuba dived from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from southern farming country to northern mines, from the Caribbean to New Zealand. Her
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n is 16 years old and in trouble. Snakes are haunting her dreams, leaving her afraid to sleep, exhausted and ill. Her doctor has tried everything, but the medications only make things worse. Then Dusa sees a television interview with two doctors, the Gordon sisters. Their specialty: curing snake dreamers. Dusa is both frightened and relieved to hear them discuss her illness as if it's a real medical condition, something with a cure! But to be treated she must go with the Gordons to their remote clinic on an isolated Greek island.
From the moment Dusa arrives in Greece peculiar things happen. At the clinic, the staff and other patients have run off. The only people left are a boy named Perse and his father, the Gordons' servants. Perse tries to warn Dusa about the Gordons, but his broken English is hard to understand. Can he really mean that they haven't aged in a hundred years? What are they trying to find out when they hypnotize Dusa? And who was their sister, the original snake dreamer,
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Delacorte Press, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 038532264X
ISBN 13: 9780385322645
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. An eye-catching first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in Very Good+ dust-jacket with a one and a half inch closed tear to lower front panel; When thirteen-year-old Jaxon accidentally brings home a snake from the pet store, he has no idea how to care for it. His mom is preoccupied with her new job and his dad is always working, so Jaxon is forced to take care of the snake himself. But the more time he spends with the snake, the more he realizes that it's not just an ordinary snake - it's a spirit animal. And Jaxon is the only one who can talk to it. Suddenly, the snake is his best friend, and Jaxon starts to see the world in a new way. He starts to see the spirit world around him, and he learns that he's a snake dreamer - someone who can see the hidden spirits of the world. Jaxon starts to learn about his family history and the fate of the world, and he starts to take care of the snake in a way that it's never been taken care of before. Snake Dream; 8vo; 231 pages; FSA. Artikel-Nr. 32257
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