Daydreamer

Sweet Dreams

by Janet Quin-Harkin

When Lisa's parents split up, she has to leave glamorous Hollywood, her father, and her movie-star mother to live with a grandmother she hardly knows. How can she ever be happy again? All too often, Lisa finds herself escaping into daydreams -- dreams of fame, friends, and boyfriends galore, Hollywood, her parents, and falling in love. But when her fantasy bubble bursts, she has to open her eyes to the fact that, in real life, things don't always work out the way they do in dreams.

Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Janet Quin-Harkin is a pseudonym of Rhys Bowen

Rhys turned to writing children’s books under her married name, Janet Quin-Harkin. Her first picture book was an immediate success and won several awards. More picture books followed, then her agent asked her to write a book for young adults. This was a turning point in Rhys’s career. Her first young adult novel was an instant hit. By her third she was selling half a million copies. Many more popular YA novels followed until Rhys decided she had said all she wanted to say about teenage love and angst, and she turned her real love—mysteries.

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved these teen romance books when they were first being published & I was 12-16 years old-then I discovered adult smutty romance books! Still have fond memories of reading these & similar teen romance lines like Wildfire.

[KylieAtkinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not too bad for a teenage book read now as an adult. I liked the main character and even the boy she eventually got together with. The mum was a terrible, selfish cow so she’s lucky to have such a wonderful grandmother.
Janet Quin-Harkin usually does the best ones.

[Gale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read in 2006.

[Esdibee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lisa is too wishy-washy and I don't like anything about her.

[Noorúlhuda Haroon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best book