Dream Storm (Remnants, Book 11) [Paperback]

K.A. Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Remnants (Book 11)

The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

Be careful what you wish for.
After what seemed like a lifetime of waiting, the Remnants are back on Earth---for better or worse. Yago has taken control of Mother and stranded the Remnants along with their ruthless enemies the Riders and Meanies to keep them company. Meanwhile, Jobs discovers that Earth has some ‘remnants’ of its own humans who don’t know any world other than the new Earth. Will the survivors of the Rock help the remaining Remnants? Or does a new enemy lurk on the horizon?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590884956
• ISBN-13: 978-0590884952
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #747,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Applegate's many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He is now a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation's largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan is well known for his paintings, which he "signs" with a thumb-print.

Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What happened to research?, July 4, 2005

By 

K. Zaegel "~*etrnal 6*~" (Des Moines, IA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dream Storm (Remnants, Book 11) (Paperback)

K.A. has forgoten one of the most important things when she wrote the Remnant series. Realism. The first book was by far the best in the series, a book that I liked more then most of the animorphs books even. Then, something happened. I lost my connection with the setting as soon as I figured out the nature of the "planet" the Remnants reside on.

One of the main selling points of animorphs was the realism. You felt that these yeerks could possibly be right next door, or even in your town.

I know it's not right to compare an author's series, but I personally agree with the reviewer below. I should never of had to force myself to "go along" with the story sometimes. The events and other things that happend were just so far out there I lost interest. It would have been much more interesting if they had landed on a -real- planet and had maybe found some sort of spacecraft on it latter.

Despite these points, I must say that K.A. is still a riveting writer. If you are a K.A. or Animorphs fan I reccomend you read/buy the first book and the second to see if you will like the series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A dark, depressing, intruiging page-turner, October 8, 2003

By 

Seth Leggett (Sacramento, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dream Storm (Remnants, Book 11) (Paperback)

After Lost and Found this book manages to rise above its predecessor in quality, but delves even deeper into Applegate's dark, depressing, intruiging story.

Stranded on the post-apocalyptic, rather inhospitable Earth, the remaining Remnants struggle to survive, though it seems unlikely. How they manage to survive, not just on Earth, but through the rather cataclysmic pychotropic Dream Storm. . . well, that's why you read the book.

This is the last book where D-Caf makes a significant appearnace, and where we get our first in depth look at the Alphas, survivors of the apocalypse, and most particularly Echo, and a look our first look at the Marauders, the other group of survivors, although their society is covered more in the next book.

The book is extremely dark, especially with the scenes with the older kids, but I couldn't put the book down, and the characters, for once, are so desperate and extreme as to seem slightly more than two-dimensional for once, and the ending only leaves you wanting more. Even if you're not a Remnants fan, this book should offer an interesting read.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still got the same ol' feelin, March 3, 2003

By 

Mary L. Trujillo (Las Cruces, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dream Storm (Remnants, Book 11) (Paperback)

Remants one opened up and had a pretty good story that I thought would open up an even greater series than the author's previous series, Animorphs and Everworld. Remnants ended up being wierd and started to get weirder and weirder by every book.
Now, the books started to level off after awhile, but then they returned to earth and things started to get wierder. This book has just thrown the series back into the wierd phase. I always used to get weirded out when i would read earlier remnant books(#2-#8). I would always feel wierded out and like i was in the twilight zone. I would have to psyche myself out before reading one of these books.
This book is interesting until they experience the "dream storm". This is described as a psychoenergetic storm or something like that. It isnt really plausible( even less so than previous things in remnants) It was kinda wierd and It got me disoriented towards the end of the book of where the characters really were and what was really happening.
I never really liked the nickname urself mindframe that seems to have taken over the kids. What happened to plain ol Roger, Jim, John, Samantha, or the like. It bothered me that some of the earth remnants(the ones that stayed behind) seemed to have stayed in that mindset but some of them had slightly normal names which somewhat pleased me.
Im just glad that were away from "mother" ( probably jsut temporarily) the end of the book promises that maybe it wont get as wierd as it was aboard mother and that the story can get more interesting.
Overall, this book was okay and I'm just reading the series to see what happens instead of being totally interested in the series. In the end, this book just left me with the same ol feelin.