Dreaming Anastasia

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Dreaming Anastasia

What would you do if your nightmare turned out to be more than a dream—and the only way to stop it was to believe the impossible?

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Dreaming Anastasia

Dreaming Anastasia


Anastasia Romanov knows she should be dead; she watched her family fall in a hail of gunfire. Instead, something, or someone, saved her. Trapped and scared in a magical hut with a witch who may be friend or foe, she begins to come to grips with the truth about her situation: that some fates are WORSE than death.

In her dreams, sixteen year old Anne Michaelson is somewhere else. She is someone else. The dreams feel as real as her waking life and they terrify her. This is not good for her social life! Aside from that, Anne thinks her life is pretty ordinary – until she runs into handsome, mysterious, and (okay) annoying Ethan on her way to chemistry class. Now Anne has powers she doesn’t understand, a history-altering mission she doesn’t want, and a growing attraction to a blue-eyed stranger that seems to be stalking her! And when Ethan realizes that Anne is the girl he’s been searching for, things start to get a little surreal! Despite her skepticism and reluctance, Anne quickly realizes that you don’t need to be imprisoned to be trapped! Stir in the doomed Duchess Anastasia, who is not quite as dead as the history books say, and the Baba Yaga, a legendary witch from Russian folklore, and you’ve got Dreaming Anastasia by debut novelist Joy Preble.

This contemporary YA fantasy alternates between the voices of Anne, Ethan, and Anastasia as they try to decipher what is going on, and who they can trust–which becomes difficult when you have secrets going back nearly 100 years…

Joy Preble’s experience with Russian legends developed through her crazy maternal grandmother, who had been one of TWENTY children! The story goes that her grandmother’s family didn’t even notice when she ran off to America at sixteen, married badly, raised four children on her own and was the least grandmotherly of grandmothers a girl could ever hope for (despite her amusing and insane tales of the Bolsheviks and tsars). No warm and fuzzies there, only admonitions for Joy to eat her vegetables so she would be strong enough to survive the impending pogroms! Originally from Chicago, she earned a degree at Northwestern University. She has since replaced the endless snow and ice of Chicago for the overpowering heat of Texas. She is a wife, a mother and a high school English teacher living in Conroe, Texas. She can be found online at www.joypreble.com.



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Started by Teen Fire Nov 19, 2009.

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Comment by Joy Preble on July 18, 2010 at 3:12pm
Hey all-
BIG NEWS!! DREAMING ANASTASIA is going to be published in Turkish! In honor of my first foreign rights (thank you Sourcebooks team!), I'm hosting the DREAMING ANASTASIA Fairy Tale Giveaway contest on my blog. It's a great prize package including a signed copy and some of the brand new book marks for the upcoming sequel, HAUNTED. Check it out here: http://joysnovelidea.blogspot.com/2010/07/dreaming-anastasia-fairy-...
Comment by Khadija on June 23, 2010 at 8:12pm
i still havent read it but hopefully soon i'll get my hands on a copy=and get to blog about it :)
Comment by Patty (Yay! Reads) on April 8, 2010 at 12:31pm
OMG, I saw this at Borders and I've been wanting it ever since. I've been obsessed with Anastasia and the Romanovs for SUCH a long time now.
Comment by Joy Preble on February 19, 2010 at 5:05pm
Want to win a signed copy of Dreaming Anastasia, a poster, and other cool stuff? Check out my fictional friends contest! http://joysnovelidea.blogspot.com/2010/02/dreaming-anastasia-really...
Comment by Daniel Ehrenhaft on February 12, 2010 at 11:53am
Hooray for this big news! Woot, indeed!! :-)
Comment by Joy Preble on February 12, 2010 at 11:52am
Well, the BIG NEWS can finally be told!! Sourcebooks is going to be publishing HAUNTED, the sequel to DREAMING ANASTASIA !!! I am soooo excited. More Anne. More Ethan. More Tess. More Baba Yaga. Plus mysterious and malevolent Russian mermaids called rusalkas!! All coming in 2011. Woot!!
Comment by Joy Preble on January 28, 2010 at 5:33pm
Hey all of you! Thanks for joining the Dreaming Anastasia group! You are all amazing. if you haven't checked out my new book trailer, click on it now. I absolutely love it! And there's about to be really really exciting Dreaming Anastasia news very soon! So stay tuned!
Comment by Lea on January 22, 2010 at 6:09pm
I still haven't had a chance to get my hands on this one, but I've heard so many good things about it. Love the cover,
Comment by Alyssa Kirk@Teens Read and Write on January 21, 2010 at 10:32pm
Love YA fantasy and this one looks fantastic!
Comment by Ella Press on January 20, 2010 at 12:23pm
i wish i could see this book in the wild. living in argentina makes it a bit impossible for me :P
can't wait to read this!
 

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