What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Foreign horror book translated into English; began in a classroom, where the teacher asked the students to write on a piece of paper what their dream from last night was about. One girl turns in blank paper.
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When I was a kid, my mom checked out a book at the library because she thought it sounded "creepy." I believe it was a horror book but do not know what audience it catered to. I believe it was around 2005-2008 that we discovered it.
This was a book translated into English from another language - I DO NOT remember what language it was in, but I believe it was something European. Latvian and Hungarian perhaps sound correct, but I could be wrong. The book was set in the country of its language's origin, as far as I know.
It began in a classroom, where the teacher asked the students to write on a piece of paper what their dream from last night was about. Can't remember her name, but she had a title like 'Miss'. In reviewing all the papers, she finds a blank sheet of paper that was submitted by I believe a young girl in the class. She demands why she turned in a blank sheet, and the girl tells her that she saw only mist in her dream, because she can enter others' dreams. The teacher prompts her with fellow students' names, asking what their dreams were about. The student tells her, and throughout the sections of the book, we see the child was correct. I believe the child even knew what the teacher's dream was.
There were I think 5 sections of the book - the first happened in the classroom; the next 3 were about the students the teacher asked about; and the final section was the teacher's dream.
I am struggling to remember much else about this book, but I desperately want to know what it was! It wasn't very thick - my guess is around 100 pages? But I could be wrong.
Other things that sound familiar:
1. I believe it was written by a woman with a Baltic surname
2. The title MIGHT have had something to do with a "door" or a "room". And maybe a color. I do not remember the author's name or the title any further than this.
Please let me know if you perhaps know what this story could be. Honestly, if my mother did not still remember renting it from our library, I might be asking myself if I imagined the book in the first place! There was something about it that was really unnerving!
Thanks guys!
-Hannah