Zac and the Dream Stealers (21 page)

Huge thanks to Barry, Imogen, Christine, Rachel, and everyone else at the fantastic Chicken House. By taking a chance on a little book about dreams, you have helped me achieve my own. I will never forget it.

Thanks to Janet, for falling in love with Zac from the very beginning. This will always be our story.

Thanks to my real-life heroes, Kenny and Lorna, who can always make me laugh.

And most important of all . . . thanks to Aileen, my beautiful, wonderful wife. If I had a magic compass, it would have led me to you.

 

Text copyright © 2012 by Ross MacKenzie

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 as
Zac and the Dream Pirates
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zac and the dream stealers / Ross MacKenzie. — 1st American ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Eleven-year-old Zac follows his grandmother into the magical world of dreams called Nocturne, where Dream Stealers led by Shadow are spreading dark magic that creates nightmares, and it is up to Zac and new friends to foil the evil plan.

ISBN 978-0-545-40106-7 [1. Dreams — Fiction. 2. Nightmares — Fiction. 3. Magic — Fiction. 4. Pirates — Fiction. 5. Friendship — Fiction. 6. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.M1986342Zac 2012

[Fic] — dc23

2011030280

First American edition, June 2012

The display type was set in DayDream.

Cover art © 2012 by Brian Despain

Cover design by Whitney Lyle

e-ISBN: 978-0-545-50889-6

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