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Article Title

The Vault of Dreamers

Authors

Liz Kazandzhy

Keywords

Excellent, Young Adult, Caragh M. O'Brien, Reality Television, High School, Dreams, Science Fiction

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

Rosie Sinclair has just been accepted to the prestigious Forge School, an elite high school for art students and also the source of the nation’s most famous television program, The Forge Show. Viewers get constant feeds of all the students at Forge and help determine who stays and goes. After miraculously making it through the first cut (with the help of her new boyfriend Linus and some new popular friends), Rosie is relieved to be staying in the Forge School. However, she begins skipping the sleeping pills that they are given every night and starts to discover some suspicious activity. She begins to spy on the school under the pretense that she’s working on a school project. She also continues skipping her sleeping pills, preferring instead to discuss her concerns over a walkie-talkie with Linus. She also uses that time to explore the secrets that Sandy Berg, the school dean, seems to be keeping about dream mining and seeding, an illegal medical endeavor involving harvesting dreams from people and giving them to others. In the end, Rosie is caught breaking the rules and considered insane for her incredulous accusations, but she finally learns the truth about Dean Berg’s secret operations.

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