Gossamer by Lois Lowry

I really enjoyed this little book about the power of dreams -- for good and for evil. This is a sweet tale about a little boy who has been abused and abandoned by his father and taken from his mother. He comes under the foster care of a lonely retired teacher. But the "heroine" of the story is a dream giver named Littlest who is just learning her craft from a kindly more experienced dream giver. They battle the Sinisteens for the heart and mind of this little boy. I recommended the book to one of our preteen patrons who is a voracious reader and she stopped by a day or two later to tell me she loved it.