- Children's fiction, Dragons, fiction, Magic, fiction, Fantasy fiction
"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it is hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Then the visions start, predicting the death of the world's last dragon. Book #1
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jasper Fforde
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 293
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, ONE
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781444707175
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