Wake

The book Wake by Lisa McMann, is a story about a young teenage girl named Janie Hannagan, who can be apart of people's dreams. The story takes place in and out of the many different dreams. Janie's first dream to encounter, was when she was eight years of age; of course it was someone else's. It happened to be Luke Drake's dream about being on the field playing football naked. Janie did not know what to think except what is happening, why me. The dreams that she kept being involved in started becoming weirder and weirder. Mrs. Hannagan was not a good mother because she never was around to help Janie, she was always to drunk. One day, while Janie was at school, a snobby girl, named Melinda Jeffers tripped Janie on her way to a seat on the bus. She arrives home and her mom is passed out on the couch and Janie instantly falls into her mom's dream.
Janie was introduced to a new girl next door named Carrie, who throughout the book maintains as Janie's best friend. Melinda Jeffers scoots her way into being best friends with Carrie. The funny thing is, Janie gets to be apart of Melinda's dream while being at Carrie's birthday party. As Janie got older, the more dreams she became apart of. On September 6, 2005, at seven thirty-five, Janie was on her way to school and came across Cabel Strumheller who was walking down the road, therefore, Janie told him to just pile into her car. They started becoming close friend, close enough for her to inform him of her biggest secret. The secret was about her being in other's dreams. Cabel, of course does not take it well at first but comes to his senses.
Janie works at the Heather Home for old people and Martha Stubin is a little old lady living there; they become really close. "Dear Janie, Thank you for my dreams. From one catcher to another, Martha Stubin, P.s. you have more power than you think" (129). Janie was planning on having a CAT scan to see what was causing this whole situation to occur. Cabel finally informs Janie that he is in love with her through one of his dreams; she remembers it when they wake up.
In my opinion I liked the book, it was easy to understand. Lisa used good imagery throughout the novel with all the different dreams Janie is involved in. For once a book kept me interested from start finish. I liked how Lisa threw in cliques, certain best friends, and even romance; it made the book more interesting. Wake is overall a good book, but you have to be a person to like confusing situations.
There are also negative things about the book. First is, I did not like how it jumped from different months and days all the time. While reading the book, I had to try and stay unconfused; which was hard, therefore I did not like that. There was also a lot of cussing that I found to be horrid. In my opinion, there should not have been so much fowl language for a book.

McMann, Lisa. Wake. New York: An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Divison, 2008. Print.