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About
The Book:
Author: Zetta
Elliott, Geneva B (Illustrator)
Pub.
Date: January
12, 2021
Publisher: Yearling Books
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback,
eBook, audiobook
Pages: 176
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it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
STEALING A BABY DRAGON WAS EASY! HIDING IT IS A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED, IN THIS SEQUEL TO REVIEWER FAVORITE ‘DRAGONS IN A BAG’.
Jaxon had just one job – to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, only two dragons were left in the bag. His best friend’s sister, Kavita, is a dragon thief!
Kavita only wanted what was best for the baby dragon. But now every time she feeds it, the dragon grows and grows! How can she possible keep it a secret? Even worse, stealing it has upset the balance between the worlds. The gates to the other realm have shut tight! Jaxon needs all the help he can get to find Kavita, outsmart a trickster named Blue, and return the baby dragon to its true home.
Grab the other book in the series!
Review: What a fun premise! Dragons in Brooklyn, a Ma who’s a witch and a transport machine in the middle of a downtown park. Zetta Elliott leads middle grade readers on a quest to find and capture baby dragons all while avoiding time traps and tricksters. Jaxon has so may discoveries about himself, his heritage and his potential. Time travel can be dangerous! Fast paced and easy to read fantasy with colorful characters. We loved it!
About Zetta:
I’m a Black feminist writer of poetry, plays,
essays, novels, and stories for children. I was born and raised in Canada, but
have lived in the US for over 20 years. I earned my PhD in American Studies
from NYU in 2003; I have taught at Ohio University, Louisiana State University,
Mount Holyoke College, Hunter College, Bard High School Early College, and
Borough of Manhattan Community College. My poetry has been published in New Daughters of Africa, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, the Cave Canem
anthology The
Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Check
the Rhyme: an Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees, and Coloring Book: an
Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers. My novella, Plastique, was excerpted
in T Dot Griots: an
Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers, and my plays have been
staged in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago. My essays have appeared
in School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Publishers
Weekly. My picture book, Bird, won the Honor
Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest and the Paterson Prize for
Books for Young Readers. My young adult novel, A
Wish After Midnight, has been called “a revelation…vivid, violent and impressive
history.” Ship of Souls was published
in February 2012; it was named a Booklist Top Ten
Sci-fi/Fantasy Title for Youth and was a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Book
Award. My YA novel, The Door at the Crossroads, was a finalist in
the Speculative Fiction category of the 2017 Cybils Awards, and my picture
book, Melena’s Jubilee, won a 2017 Skipping
Stones Honor Award. I received the Children’s Literature Association’s Article Award for
my 2014 essay, “The Trouble with
Magic: Conjuring the Past in New York City Parks.” I am an advocate
for greater diversity and equity in publishing, and I have self-published
numerous illustrated books for younger readers under my own imprint,
Rosetta Press; 3 were named Best of the Year by the Bank Street Center for
Children’s Literature, and Benny Doesn’t Like to Be Hugged was a
first-grade fiction selection for the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Dragons in a Bag, a middle grade
fantasy novel, was published by Random House in 2018; the Association for
Library Service to Children (ALSC) named it a Notable Children’s
Book. Its
sequel, The Dragon Thief, was named a Best
Middle Grade Book of 2019 by CBC Books. Say
Her Name, a young adult poetry collection, was published by Little, Brown Books
for Young Readers in January 2020; A
Place Inside of Me: a Poem to Heal the Heart from FSG was
named a 2021 Notable Poetry Book by the National Council of Teachers of
English. I currently live in Evanston, IL.
Click here if you’re not sure how to pronounce my name.
I’m represented by Johanna Castillo of Writers House.
Photo credit: me!
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Find out about the illustrator Geneva
B HERE!
Giveaway Details:
3 lucky winners will win a finished copy of THE DRAGON THIEF, US Only.
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1/18/2021 |
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1/19/2021 |
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1/20/2021 |
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1/21/2021 |
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1/22/2021 |
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1/25/2021 |
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1/27/2021 |
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1/28/2021 |
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