Empty Sky

Fans of "The Maze Runner" will love this action-packed, thought-provoking adventure. Moving from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to New Hampshire's Upper Valley, young Jamie McPherson and his aging dog, Shem, battle the NSA's Earl Pangiosi and his dream-stealing Sandman Project even though doing so means he may never see his mother or father again. Jamie's mother has been missing for over a year, and when Jamie's father goes into a mysterious coma, The Moon sends the dark-skinned, long-haired shapeshifter Graywolf to bring Jamie to The Gardens of the Moon. There he meets the Guardians of the Moon, winged wolves who protect their Mistress with a fierce loyalty and are suspicious of modern humans. The Moon tells Jamie he and his mother are the last of the Elpin, creatures the ancients called Hopes. "Your kind helped humans shape futures," she explains and asks Jamie to help her stop Pangiosi before he leaves people with nights of only loss and despair. "A world without dreams is a world wi...