Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scales
(Playaway/Launchpad)

Title from Playaway label.

ON ORDER RECORD.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

From award-winning author Wendy S. Swore, a contemporary middle-grade novel in the tradition ofA Monster Like Me, in which two friends must solve the mystery of Liams illness using their knowledge of fairy talesSomething is wrong with Liam. He collapses during soccer practice, he cant stay awake in class, and hes starting to see a ghostly white fox that disappears into smoke. His parents and teachers accuse him of being lazy and staying up too late, but he knows its something worse. He feels like hes disappearing bit by bit: his strength, his skills, his mind.No one believes him except for Alaina, a friend and self-proclaimed expert in fantasy and fairy tales. Shes seen this sort of thing before and believes Liam has been cursed with a powerful sleeping spell. Her journal is full of possible ways to break a cursestand in a circle of salt, trick a troll, or wish on a falling star. Liam is skeptical, but with his normal life slipping farther away, he agrees to try her potential cures.As they search for answers in stories, Alaina shares that she also is dealing with something no one else can see: type 1 diabetes. It rears its head like an invisible dragon, and she carries her medical equipment as a knights lance and dragon-scale shield to battle it.As Liams mystery illness worsens, he will need Alainas friendshipand perhaps a bit of fairy magicto find a way to understand the truth of what is happening and regain the pieces of himself that are lost.Sleeping Spells and Dragon Scalesis a story about finding courage in friendship with empathy, and how a powerful imagination can help someone get through hard times.