Second Sleep

The time by the lake is everything perfect about a childhoodsummerand maybe it also holds the answers Max needs. Give this tender middlegrade novel to readers who love the mystery, friendships, and touches of magicin novels by Rebecca Stead and Laurel Snyder!To get Max and Rosies minds off their mothers mysteriousdisappearance, their grandmother, Mozelle, suggests that they visit the old logcabin where their mom spent her summers as a child. This is a place where, whenit gets dark, you go to bed. But according to Mozelle, their mother had herhappiest dreams during her nights at the lake.That first night, Max and Rosie travel in their dreams to analmost impossibly beautiful place where they meet a wonderful new group offriends. But was it really just a dream? Or is there something extraordinaryand magical about this compound by the lake? As Max slowly grasps what is really going on, he wonders if hemight have found the key to the mystery of his mothers disappearanceand how tobring her safely home.