Sleepless (MG)

How many times have you thought If only I had a few more hours in a day, I could finally get everything done?  What if you no longer needed to sleep?  This is what Levi, Mickey, Skye, Thea, and Cyrus ask.  The four each think they are the only ones who no longer sleep, until they find each other.   While they all agree no one else can know about this, they also use the time to become better than everyone else at things.   Levi, a big social media guy, starts making posts from different accounts around the world.  Cyrus the creator uses his time to invent new things, Skye, the great student, uses her time to become even smarter, and Thea practices songs from the upcoming play she is in.  Mickey is tired of being bullied, so he starts running and lifting weights.  It is a chance encounter on one of Mickey's runs when his running partner and best friend, his dog Baldy, gets loose, and Mickey follows to get him back, and that is when they start coming together and find they are not alone.  But the real mystery they need to solve is what caused their sleep to stop.

I'm not sure where the author keeps getting his ideas, but I hope it doesn’t stop anytime soon. This is another wonderful book that makes you stop and think, "What would I do?"  Would I even like it?  I really liked this book, told from the different viewpoints of the kids and what they are really thinking about it all, especially after it has been going on for a while, as they start to see the moral dilemma and decide how to deal with it.  This is a great book for middle-grade, reluctant readers, and would make an awesome classroom read. Maybe even read it when you can get to sleep.