Secret Window [Paperback]

Betty Ren Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1988

Meg is afraid to tell anyone when her dreams literally start coming true, but she needs help before she can learn to use her gift of seeing into the future.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic (February 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590405616
• ISBN-13: 978-0590405614
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,926,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meg's Dreams Were Coming True..., December 10, 2003

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Silmarwen (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Secret Window (Paperback)

Meg has a secret that she has never told anyone. She has weird dreams - dreams that actually come true! Meg is sure that if she tells anyone, even her big brother, they will think she is crazy. All that Meg wants is to be normal, but with her special "gift" she knows that that is not possible. Then her father leaves her family to go focus on his writing. Meg is devastated and feels that her family will never recover. Her brother even thinks about turning down his scholarship to help out by working to earn some money!

Meg turns to her best friend for help, but she is too involved with trying to become popular. When Meg leaves a party that she saw in her dreams, she is shunned by her friends and so she turns to her new neighbor, a different kind of girl who also comes from a divorced family. She starts helping Meg accept who she really is and making her feel comfortable with being different. But when one of Meg's bad dreams, a dream about someone drowning, come true, will Meg be willing to risk exposing her secret to save someone's life?

This is a fun, fast read for teens and older children. It was one of my favorite series when I was growing up because Meg has her special dreaming power, which I thought was very cool. It is also very clean and deals with a lot of important issues that cause a great amount of disruption in family life, such as divorce, peer pressure, drug use, etc. Betty Ren Wright is a great author and has a nice, smooth writing style. If you enjoy this book, check out the rest of the books in this series, they are all great!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book about dreams...and growing up, July 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Secret Window (Library Binding)

This book centers around the life of 12 year old Meg Korshak and her uncanny ability to have dreams that come true -- all while dealing with her father leaving to "find himself", her mother and brother's struggle to make ends meet, the tension of wanting to be part of the "in" crowd vs. just being yourself, and of course, the fact that having these dreams makes her "different". A hidden treasure -- if only it were still in print!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Secret Window review, October 20, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Secret Window (Paperback)

Meg keeps having these dreams. When she would have them she would wright them down in a special notebook. She dosen't tell anyone about her dreams because she had told her dad once and her told her to save it, he didn't want to hear somthing so stupid. She keeps having these dreams that came true. One of them she had was her watching a house burn down, by th next week it happened. She hada dream the next couple of days she had a dream that she walked into a blue lit up room and that was all she saw. The next day a girl ,Ronda, had moved into the apartment next to thers. She looked out the window and seen her brother ,Bill, skipping down the street. He ran in and told her he had got a scolorship for a collage. After they got back from supper her mother and her fauther got into a big fight. The next day while her mother was at work her dad sat her and her brother down and told them he was moving to Marquette. Gracie came over and asked he if she wanted to go to Linda's sleepover with her. She said yes and went to ask her mom if she could go. The next day they were off to the party. They walked in and sat their stuff down and then headed for the wreck room...