Strange the Dreamer -- Laini Taylor, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams?

In this sweeping and breathtaking novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.

The answers await in Weep.

Author: Laini Taylor
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780316341684
Age Range: 14-17

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 24
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 188083 / Strange the Dreamer

Award: Michael L. Printz Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2017
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 107
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2017 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2017 pg. 97
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2017 - Recommended - Hard To Beat

About the Author
Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Honor Book Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares. Taylor is also the author of the global sensation the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the companion novella Night of Cake & Puppets. Taylor's other works include the Dreamdark books: Blackbringer and Silksinger, and the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine. Her website is lainitaylor.com.