Ridley Pearson dove into writing for youth with the popular Peter Pan prequels he has been writing with Dave Barry. They were marketed through Disney so it should not be surprising to see that his first standalone book for middle schoolers is also produced Disney.

Finn, an eighth grader living in Orlando, Florida, was lucky enough to be hired to participate in a new technologicaly based docent program for the Magic Kingdom. They were taken and scanned so their images could be converted into holographic Disney Host Interactives, or DHIs.

It does not take Finn and his four fellow DHI subjects to realized that there is more to their jobs than they expected as they start to have shared dreams of things going horribly wrong in Disney's Magic Kingdom. After Finn meets Wayne, an imagineer who has been working for Disney since Disney World was originally plan, he learns that the five kids were selected for their unique skills so they could try and solve a major problem at the kingdom.

One of the things that makes Disney World so special is that it is a place of magic. As a result, if people believe in something hard enough, it becomes real. That is true whether the person or thing is good or evil. And the evil aspects of the Magic Kingdom are looking to take over. Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty is leading the charge as our heroes take on characters from It's a Small World and the Pirates of the Caribbean and look for clues in the Frontier Land.

The kids are aided by the fact that because of the technology used in setting them up for their job, they are now a mix of human and hologram, allowing them to sneak around and find unique hiding places as they race around the Magic Kingdom barely escaping from harm while also learning that any injuries they get in their dreams carry over into the real world.

While it might be hard for some adults to dispend belief about some of the plot points, particularly the ability of the kids to avoid the probing eyes of parents and school officials as they work in the real world to set things up for the dream-enduced adventures, kids will definitely eat up the story. Not only is it set in a place that all kids want to go to, but the middle school characters are set up to be the heroes in an adventures to save Disney World and the world in general.

The writing is fast-paced but seems to skim over some parts of the story seem to be rushed, but it is usually at moments between action sequences. These could have been nicely used to build some character development, which would have strengthened the book slightly. Generally, though, I would say this is a fun read for middle school and others who are big fans of the Magic Kingdom.