Do any of you know of a search engine or chat room or such that would help me find a book I either read or dreamed in junior high? I think the title was something like Dreamweaver or The Dream Weaver. Something about dreams and looms. No clue on the author. Anyway, each time I poke around on Amazon to see if I can find it, I get a little more obsessed with the fact that I can't.
Have I already asked about this?
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Is this what you are looking for?
Colors in the Dreamweaver's Loom by Beth Hilgartner. Looks like it was published in 1989.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Colors-in-the-Dreamweavers-Loom/Beth-Hilgartner/e/9780395502143
Let us know if we helped solve the mystery!!!
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
That is absolutely my book. Can I tell you (I won't!) how many times I've searched Amazon, library catalogs, etc... that is totally it, although all these years I've thought the protagonist was a boy! I may have to buy it for a re-read if I can't get it at our library.
Thank you, Deanna! You obviously have some search engine knack that I'm missing!
Kate, I am truly thrilled that I was able to help solve the mystery. I have been in your shoes...looking for that long lost book or album that you *sort of* remember the details but you've slept a few nights since it was in your possession.
I must admit, however, I am no Sherlock Holmes. The description in your post just led me to plug the words The Dream Weaver Loom into Google and watched technology make me look like a super-technie nerd/genius.
You try it. Or maybe not. I sort of like looking like the sleuth.
:-)
The thing is, I DID try it - on Amazon, though, which maybe was my problem. But I tried a few combinations, and only the exact title brought up the book in the results - maybe because it's out of print? It seems like Amazon's awfully willing to find anything CLOSE to what you're searching for in any other case. :)
Still, techie-genius or not, I cannot believe that after so long looking for it, you just popped that up there 6 hours after I posted - Ha!
I've already borrowed and re-read it, and it was sadly disappointing! I think I conflated the ending with another "teenager comes to terms with issues by time travel" novel, Cave Beyond Time... Dreamweaver had some annoying feminist & fatalist threads (heh) that I didn't pick up on as a pre-teen. Also the ending was a copout, although I think I read somewhere that there's a sequel, so maybe that's why she concluded it the way she did. All in all, I liked it, and am so glad to have found it!
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