Dakota Dream

by James Bennett and James W. Bennett

Book Overview

This is the story of 15-year-old Floyd Rayfield's attempt to find a family and a home. A dream leads the young man, who's spent most of his life in foster homes and institutions, to escape from a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590466801
• ISBN13: 9780590466806
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Floyd's Story

This story is about a boy who is searching for his dream to become a Dakota Indian. One night he has a realistic dream that he is an Indian fighting one of the battles with the Indians against the colonists. He wants to get to an Indian reservation where hopefully he can fulfill his dream as an Indian but he has no way of getting there until he meets a boy with a broken down motorcycle and he tries to fix it and then in the night he rides it to the reservation so he can become an Indian and fulfill his dreams.

"Indian Day"

In "Dakota Dream" a young boy runs away from a group home to fullfill his dream about being a Dakota Indian and living on an real reservation. Personally I like this book a lot because I think it would be cool to be a Dakota Indian. The boy one night in in a vision in his dream, he sees himself as a Dakota Indian riding on horseback to go fight the settlers. Thats when it first comes to him, that his destiny is to become a Dakota Indian. He fights his way through life going from group home to group home, not even considering the fact that his parents died when he was a baby, and never saw them before. I think "Dakota Dream" is an exciting, and one of the best books I have ever read!

Bennet's Great!

I am recomending this book to people who are in junior high. It tells about a man named Floyd who is a foster kid and it shows how he lives and feels. It shows how he acts as a foster child that has to move a lot and he doesn't have many friends. This book teaches kids that life is hard and that you should have friends so you can count on someone. I want to recomend it really because it was kind of an adventure story. It had to do with Floyd's destiny or what he thought was his destiny. If you like Indians, this would might be a book that would interest you.

good, but weak points also

Dakota Dream by James Bennett held my interest throughout the book. That is not to say that I agreed with all the characterization or plot movement thought the book, however. The main character, Floyd Rayfield, is sometimes too weird to be believeable. And the adult supporting characters all seem to be portrayed in a negative light. Despite these critical points, the book had many redeeming areas.