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.
Authors
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- 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
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (171 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00231784 (OCoLC)830009312 (CaOOCEL)439753
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Summer Dragons 2
- Prologue 6
- Chapter One: Death's Door 7
- Chapter Two: A Cross-Eyed Monster and a Sneaker Creature 16
- Chapter Three: Tombstones and an Egg Stone 25
- Chapter Four: A Pet Dock 35
- Chapter Five: A Front Doll Entry and Froufrou 42
- Chapter Six: Fire Fighters 50
- Chapter Seven: The Hatchling 60
- Chapter Eight: A Confidential File and a Secret Will 69
- Chapter Nine: An Unidentified Flying Object 79
- Chapter Ten: A Swash-Moster 85
- Chapter Eleven: A Caradoc Swamp Monster 97
- Chapter Twelve: Skunk Cabbage 106
- Chapter Thirteen: History, Herstory 117
- Chapter Fourteen: Dragon's Breath 132
- Chapter Fifteen: The Caradoc Chronicle and The Ageless Dispatch 140
- Chapter Sixteen: The Dragon Dive 148
- Chapter Seventeen: The Sweet Hereafter 154
- Chapter Eighteen: An Electric Dragon 168
- Epilogue 176