num_pages: 400
description: A new story about hope and survival. Years ago when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams people are haunted sick mad unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon residential schools pop upor are re-openedacross the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams. Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to these schools and has spent the years since heading north with his new found family: a group of other dreamers who like him are trying to build and thrive as a community. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room locked in and alone for the first time in years and he knows immediately where he isand what it will take to escape. Meanwhile out in the world his found family searches for him and dodges new dangersschool Recruiters a blood cult even the land itself. When their paths finally collide French must decide how far he is willing to goand how many loved ones is he willing to betrayin order to survive.
language: English
title: Hunting by Stars
publisher: Harry N. Abrams