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Gr 7-Up A novel set in an alternate contemporary world. Viewing dragons as fire-breathing, non-sentient animals with gigantic appetites for livestock, humans have hunted them for centuries, and now they survive only in a few wilderness havens. Jake Mendoza has grown up at one such haven, the Smokehill National Park in the American West, and has inherited his scientist parents' commitment to the park's secret inhabitants. When he rescues an orphaned baby dragon, he sets in motion a ca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jake has grown up at Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in a national park dedicated to the preservation of dragons. On his first solo overnight hike, he witnesses the death of a mother dragon and becomes surrogate mother to her only surviving baby. What Jake learns from Lois (as he names the baby dragon) transforms dragon studies; at the same time, the Institute fights for its life, the prime...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jake lives in a national park dedicated to dragon preservation. After witnessing the death of a mother dragon, he becomes surrogate...Log In or Sign Up to Read More