Thirteen-year-old Samantha has no friends because she is constantly exhausted. She is constantly in a state of chronic exhaustion because she sleepwalks every night. She has broken into stores, stolen walkers, and build tree houses in her sleep. And she, unfortunately, remembers none of it in the morning. After her latest sleepwalking stunt, her mother takes her to see a sleep specialist who happens to run a sleep clinic out of the creepy strip mall store.
Sam is hesitant that the doctor would be able to help. However, the night after her procedure, she wakes up outside of her body and is watching herself sleep. After her panic subsides, she realizes there's a world of detached souls called SleepWakers. Each child is a member of their own clique including the Achieves, the Roamers, and the OCDeeds.
Madalynn Sucret is the nicest girl in Sam's school and is the leader of the Mean Dreams. She shows Sam how to use her power to get back at bullies who are tormenting her. After hanging out with Madalynn, it becomes clear that Madalynn is the bully and Sam needs to put a stop to her. Sam is faced with uniting the various tribes to fight back against the Mean Dreams before it's too late.
The novel was a fun read and had an interesting premise. I like that each person had their own community that allowed them to be themselves. I thought the premise of "people show who they really are in the darkness" was going to be involving monsters and demons but, it didn't. However, the book does offer nuances of friendship, loss, family, and dealing with pain and emotion. The book reminds readers that things are not always as they appear. Overall, the novel is a good read for both adults and young adults.
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About the Book
Title: SAM SAVES THE NIGHT
Author: Shari Simpson
Pub.
Date: October 1, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 304
What would you do if you could stay out all night and not
get in trouble?
Thirteen-year-old Sam has no friends, but you can't really blame her. She lives
her life in a state of chronic exhaustion thanks to her nightly sleepwalking
jaunts, which include trips to the store, treehouse-building projects, and
breaking-and-entering escapades-none of which she remembers in the morning. Her
condition is taking its toll on her family (and her life), so when her mom
takes her to see a wacky strip-mall sleep specialist, Sam is wary, but 100
percent in.
The night after the doc works his mojo, Sam wakes up outside her body, watching
herself sleep. FREAKY! But once she gets over the panic attack, she realizes
there's a whole world of detached-souls out there, called SleepWakers-cliques
of kids like the Achieves, who use their sleep time to learn new things; the
Numbs, who eat junk food and play video games all night long, and the OCDeeds
who search for missing things and organize other people's stuff. And then there
are the Mean Dreams, led by Madalynn Sucret, the nicest girl in Sam's school,
who shows Sam that she can use her power to get back at a bully who's been
tormenting her. Sam is intrigued-until it becomes clear that Madalynn is
the real bully and the "tormentor" is just, well... sad. Now Sam is
faced with uniting the various tribes of SleepWakers to fight back against
Madalynn and the Mean Dreams in the most epic battle the night has ever
seen.
About Shari:
Shari Simpson is a
playwright and screenwriter who cowrote the off-Broadway hit Maybe Baby, It's
You and the Disney Channel Original Movie The Swap, both with her longtime
writing partner, Charlie Shahnaian. She also won the 2012 BlogHer Voice of the
Year for Humor Writing. Shari lives in Hoboken, NJ, with a patient husband, two
hilarious teenagers, a demonic cat, and her pug, Mila Kunis. This is her first
novel.
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