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Dragon skin / Karen Foxlee ; illustrations Dale Newman.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.Description: 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781760526108
  • 176052610X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.4.F696 D73 2021
  • A823.4
Awards:
  • Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist, 2022.
Summary: How to save a dragon: 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. 2) Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to sit at the waterhole at dusk and remember Mika, her best friend. At home her mother's not the same since her boyfriend moved in. They don't laugh anymore and Pip has to go to bed early, turn off her light and pretend she doesn't exist. When she finds a half-dead creature at the waterhole, everything changes. She knows she has to save this small dragon and return it to where it comes from. But how?
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Children's Books
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Junior collection FOX Available 071680
Total reserves: 0

How to save a dragon: 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. 2) Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to sit at the waterhole at dusk and remember Mika, her best friend. At home her mother's not the same since her boyfriend moved in. They don't laugh anymore and Pip has to go to bed early, turn off her light and pretend she doesn't exist. When she finds a half-dead creature at the waterhole, everything changes. She knows she has to save this small dragon and return it to where it comes from. But how?

Primary school age.

Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist, 2022.

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