nightmare

__Nightmare__ by Joan Lowery Nixon ISBN: 0-385-73026-8 c2003 166 pages

pp. 1-2 where Emily has her reoccurring nightmare and her mom wakes her up to inquire about it
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Emily is an average kid when it comes to schoolwork, and that just isn’t good enough for her parents. They want her to overachieve like her older siblings, so they enroll her in Camp Excel for the summer. On the way to camp, Emily has the same nightmarish dream that she has been having for almost ten years. In her dream she sees a dead body. She doesn’t want to discuss it with her parents, so they let it go...again. But, when she arrives at camp she can’t hide it anymore because her roommate has some ritual that she makes Emily participate in and they discover Emily is in danger because of that nightmare.
 * Summary:**

YA fiction: mystery; camps; murder; nightmares; detective stories

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