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In the movie the boy is a video game wiz, turns out the video game was a set up - a test to recruit starfighters. Aliens take the boy to fight in a space battle. The boy lives in a trailer park, I think there's something significant about the name/sign of the trailer park. Boy has a girlfriend.
Edit: I just looked at the description for the movie on Amazon, and I think this is it. The trailer park is called "Starlite Starbrite", movie came out in 1984.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Starfighte...


Published early 90s--1992 or 1993, I think.
Check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/Killobyte-Piers...

Sorry I can't be of much help cause I too have been doing searches for this very same book, It's frusterating! If you do find the book let me know? your book buddy Amara FYI -- I just spoke to my sister who too read this book in school and she is going to call her grade school teacher tomorrow who she still speaks too and ask her if she can remember this book.- so if I hear any good news I will post it ASAP!


"Paul has a recurring nightmare, about a small boy in awful danger. When he learns that his classmate Francine has it, too, the two of them join forces to solve the mystery and save the boy--before their bad dream becomes a terrifying reality."
The "mystery" is that they were both staying at the Stardust Motel when there was a UFO sighting. A pregnant woman and her pregnant dog were there as well and their babies were left with telepathic abilities. The government is out to find the telepathic child (and a telepathic puppy), as are the two kids who are receiving the dream. The government agents follow the kids and rescue the child (and puppy), then end up being chased to a fair where they get stuck of a Ferris wheel.
There aren't any computers or aliens in the book, but the Stardust Motel is certainly there and there are UFO and chase aspects to it.


The kids are all playing a computer game, one of the boys finds out that the aliens they are fighting in the game are actually real, all they want to do is go home, so he goes into the game somehow and leads them to safety. There is a girl who is also playing the game.
The only Stardust association I can come up with for this book is that Terry Pratchett has worked with Neil Gaimen who wrote the graphic novel Stardust which was turned into a movie of the same name, so maybe I'm completely on the wrong track?

Summary: Fourteen-year-olds Miriam and Stuart agree to test a new computer game in utmost secrecy but find that it is more than they bargained for.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/used...

The plot of Into the Dream sounds like it fits- I remember the psychic dog- but the cover most definitely does not ring a bell. I could swear I remember the cover, and it said Stardust Motel.
This shared imagined memory is beginning to resemble a book plot in itself... Maybe we've all been visited by aliens?

Pretty sure there was an edition of Into the Dream with this cover. (And this particular book has shown up in this group several times. It is a tad spooky!)


http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/5...





Kevyn wrote: "There have been several editions of this book and if you look closely at the Puffin 2000 edition, at least, that cover does have an image of the "Starlight Hotel" (or "Motel"?) neon sign.
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This has been driving me mad for years! I read this in the 6th grade in 1982 and have been unable to find it since. Thank you all so much for helping me find it again. My recollection is foggy, but I remember the boy & girl visiting the 'Starlight Motel' in Lake Tahoe. Does that sound right?
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Young adult book from somewhere in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
Involves a boy and a girl who are friends.
They play a computer game and somehow (the boy only?) gets sucked into the game.
The boy must fight some (alien-like?) creature in the game to escape.
For some reason, who knows why, the phrase "stardust motel" or just "stardust" comes to mind when I think about this book.
Searched for variants of that as the title, but no success.
Appreciate the help.