Nightmares!

<b>&quot;<b><i>Coraline</i> meets <i>Monsters, Inc.</i></b> in this delightfully entertaining offering </b>from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller.&quot; - <i><i>Publishers Weekly</i></i><b><i><br><br></i>The hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel <i>Nightmares!</i> is a <b>Texas Bluebonnet nominee and</b> the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town. </b><br><br>Sleeping has never been so scary. And now waking up is even worse!<br> <br>Charlie Laird has several problems. <br> <br>1. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.<br>2. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark.<br>3.He can't remember the last time sleeping wasn't a nightmarish prospect. Like even a nap. <br> <br>What Charlie doesn't know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Nightmares can ruin a good night's sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world - that's a line that should never be crossed.<br> <br>And when your worst nightmares start to come true . . . well, that's something only Charlie can face. And he's going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. For good.<br><b><br>Praise for <i>Nightmares!</i></b><br><b><br>Book one is a </b><i><b>New York Times</b></i><b> bestseller and Texas Bluebonnet nominee</b>!<br><br>&quot;Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and...<b>readers will want to accompany him</b> again.&quot; - <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>&quot;<b>A touching comical saga</b>...about facing things that go bump in the night.&quot; - <i>US Weekly</i><br><br>&quot;&quot;[<i>Nightmares!</i>] succeeds at scaring and amusing in equal measure ... [It's] <b>sweet, charming, and imaginative.</b>&quot; - <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br>&quot;Segel...and Miller build <b>an entertaining, cartoony world</b> full of scary (but not too scary) monsters, silly jokes, plucky kid heroes...with a promise of adventures to come.&quot; - <i>BOOKLIST </i><br><br> &quot;<b>An engaging and creative story</b>...woven with a generous amount [of] humor.&quot; - <i>VOYA</i><br><br>&quot;There's <b>humor and a fairly high ick-factor.</b>&quot; - <i>School Library Journal</i><br><br>&quot;<b>Cleverly crafted</b>...This novel presents just the right mix of 'scary and humorous.'&quot; - <i>ILA Literacy Daily</i>