- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Dragons, Pets
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Bruce Coville
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- Minstrel Books, Demco Media, Scholastic, Inc.
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545051187
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First sentence
“Jeremy Thatcher crumpled his paper in disgust.”
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