Viking, Toronto, 1996, 3rd pr.  ISBN 0-670-86954-6.  Hard cover, 228 pages.  Very good; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows a bit of edge and cover wear; spine top crimped.  SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page – ‘Hello from Kit Pearson’; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.   ‘Theo and her young, irresponsible mother live a miserable, poverty-stricken life.  Theo dreams of belonging to a real family … when she is mysteriously “adopted” by a large, warm family, the Kaldors. … But as time passes, the magic of Theo’s new life begins – literally – to fade, and soon she finds herself back with her mother.  Were the Kaldors real, or just a dream?  And who is the shadowy figure who haunts Theo’s thoughts?  Awake and Dreaming is a ghost story with a difference by one of Canada’s greatest children’s writers.’ (from front flap)