Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scales

De: Wendy S. Swore

Narrado por: Emily Lawrence, Alex Boyles

From award-winning author Wendy S. Swore, a contemporary middle-grade novel in the tradition of A Monster Like Me, in which two friends must solve the mystery of Liam’s illness using their knowledge of fairy tales

Something is wrong with Liam. He collapses during soccer practice, he can’t stay awake in class, and he’s starting to see a ghostly white fox that disappears into smoke. His parents and teachers accuse him of being lazy and staying up too late, but he knows it’s something worse. He feels like he’s disappearing bit by bit: his strength, his skills, his mind.

No one believes him except for Alaina, a friend and self-proclaimed expert in fantasy and fairy tales. She’s seen this sort of thing before and believes Liam has been cursed with a powerful sleeping spell. Her journal is full of possible ways to break a curse—stand in a circle of salt, trick a troll, or wish on a falling star. Liam is skeptical, but with his normal life slipping farther away, he agrees to try her potential cures.

As they search for answers in stories, Alaina shares that she also is dealing with something no one else can see: type 1 diabetes. It rears its head like an invisible dragon, and she carries her medical equipment as a knight’s lance and dragon-scale shield to battle it.

As Liam’s mystery illness worsens, he will need Alaina’s friendship—and perhaps a bit of fairy magic—to find a way to understand the truth of what is happening and regain the pieces of himself that are lost.

Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scales is a story about finding courage in friendship with empathy, and how a powerful imagination can help someone get through hard times.

©2024 Wendy Swore (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

Quick Connection

This book helps you to connect with the characters and be engaged as you follow them along their adventures. Wendy is an amazing author who helps to connect the listener with the struggles that each character are going through.

Highly recommend that anyone and everyone listen to this and the other books by Wendy!

Learning to see invisible diseases

What happens when children develop chronic diseases that their friends and family don’t understand? How can we help them through the traumatic diagnosis and still love them and recognize they are still valuable human beings?

I highly recommend this book.