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Summer Dragons

1 Mar 2007

Ten-year-old Elizabeth is spending the summer at her Great-Aunt Germaines, in rural Caradoc County. Also along for the visit is her brother, Eddie, and her mother. Great-Aunt Germaine seems to be a forbidding character, and Beth does not warm up to her. Between her relationship with Aunt Germaine and Eddies antics, Elizabeth feels overwhelmed. She discovers her aunts emporium, a former tourist attraction. It is a fascinating place, filled with memorabilia, including old newspaper reports of a mysterious swamp monster. Elizabeths own adventure begins when she finds a perfectly egg-shaped stone in the local graveyard. Its brilliantly white, warm, and pulsing with energy and it feels like theres something inside. Encouraged by her eccentric great-aunt, Beth builds a nest for the egg stone. When the egg hatches, Elizabeths imagination guides her in a fantastical search for the runaway hatchling. Her investigations, abetted by her great-aunt, lead her to believe that the hatchling is the legendary Caradoc Swamp Monster. Elizabeths efforts to prove her deductions bring her into ever more fiery conflict with Eddie. What hatches is a zany adventure involving quick mud, skunk cabbage, swamp monsters, dragon dives, bonfires, fiery words and broiling tempers. Its a summer of dragons. The solution to both the mystery of the egg stone and the problem of sibling rivalry are satisfyingly reached in the humorous and imaginative conclusion of Summer Dragons.

social issues brothers and sisters general practical jokes aunts teenage fiction: general fiction juvenile fiction children’s teenage personal & social issues: emotions emotions & feelings

Authors

Holly Haggarty

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
jC813/.54 [Fic]
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22 23
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781459715912 9781894917520
LCCN
PZ7.H1233 PR9199.3.H244
LCCN Item number
Su 2007eb S94 2007eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (171 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00231784 (OCoLC)830009312 (CaOOCEL)439753
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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