An email from Seattle Reader included a recommendation ... a strong recommendation for Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care & Feeding of British Dragons, by Quenby Olson. Mildred Percy, the unmarried sister, is living with her properly married sister and family. A trunk arrives for her one day (fortunately when she's home alone, otherwise that sister may have just, um, appropriated it for herself) telling Mildred she has an inheritance from a great uncle. There doesn't seem to be much ... old papers and journals ... and an odd rock ... which is actually an egg, from which hatches a dragon! Raising this dragon is, shall we say, a learning experience!  A delightful read and extremely hard to put down!

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