Reviews for The Dream Bearer

The average rating for The Dream Bearer based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-05 00:00:00 Lee Gandolfi Having enjoyed Monster and Shooter I was curious to read another Water Dean Myers book - his works are popular with my high school students - but I was disappointed with this book. I felt like The Dream Bearer had a concept that wasn’t fully developed. I thought it would be more of an in-depth exploration of the African American experience, and how this has contributed to issues the community is dealing with today, but it felt like the length and depth of the book was simply not adequate for what it was trying to attempt. It felt like the book was struggling to deal with too many issues – drugs, homelessness, mental health, abuse, immigration – like it was written to stimulate “issue” talks in classes. Students with family members affected by mental health might connect with the story’s exploration of this topic. On a positive note, I did like how Myers left the parent's mental health issues unresolved, but showed how the child protagonist could at least come to terms with the illness, gain empathy for his parent and a degree of understanding of how it must affect him.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-23 00:00:00 Audrea Bettineschi the dream bearer was one of my top favorites.this book is about a kid and his friend who meets a homeless guy and learns so much history about his black culture.the homeless guy is over 100 years old so he knows a lot of things.the book is called the dream bearer because the homeless man remembers all of his dreams and shares them with people who are interested.