{"id":1630,"date":"2009-04-01T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:52","slug":"dreaming-in-color-seeing-red-by-anne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming in Color: Seeing Red by Anne Louise MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SdPRQYpYXYI\/AAAAAAAABu0\/UVsh4STDMDk\/s1600-h\/SeeingRed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/SeeingRed.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319825664278814082\" \/><\/a>Frankie Uccello is thirteen years old and basically the most ordinary guy you can think of&#8211;he loves skateboarding, he&#8217;s not that keen on girls yet&#8211;except for one thing nobody knows about him: every once in a while, he dreams about the future, and the dreams come true. Whenever Frankie has a dream in which a particular color recurs portentously, he knows that he has to keep an eye out.<\/p>\n<p>When Frankie dreams he&#8217;s a black bird, flying, and then crashes to the ground, he doesn&#8217;t think much of it at first, even though it&#8217;s a red dream. But when he finds an injured stormy petrel in an alley behind the school, he remembers the other part of his dream: someone in a red jacket falling from a black horse. His best friend Tim owns a black horse&#8230;and later that week, Frankie&#8217;s dad signs them both up as volunteers to help special needs kids who visit a horse farm as therapy. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Frankie may be a skateboarding maven, but he&#8217;s terrified of horses&#8211;and after his dream, he&#8217;s scared that Tim might be in danger. Not only that, when he shows up at the horse farm, one of the weirdest girls in his class turns out to be a volunteer, too. Maura-Lee always seems to be hiding something, doesn&#8217;t talk much, and has a reputation for being able to read minds. And now he&#8217;s got to deal with her, too. <\/p>\n<p>This is a good solid novel about friendship and learning to trust others&#8211;and learning when to trust your own instincts, too. The concrete details about skateboarding and horse riding really bring Frankie&#8217;s world to life, and I enjoyed reading a story set in Nova Scotia for a change. The supernatural edginess kept me turning the pages throughout the book&#8211;plus I&#8217;m a sucker for the idea of prophetic dreams. A fast-paced read for older MG\/younger YA readers.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This review was based on an advance review copy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9781554532926\" target=_blank>Buy <i>Seeing Red<\/i> from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Uccello is thirteen years old and basically the most ordinary guy you can think of&#8211;he loves skateboarding, he&#8217;s not that keen on girls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,12,63,5],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-magical-realism","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}