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A child brings a dragon to the library and learns a valuable lesson--libraries and dragons do not mix.

For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.

Not another adventure! Against all odds, Ben the Bengal cat defeated the demon dragon and sent it back to the Seventh Dimension. Consequently, Ben's nemesis, the evil warlock Astravar, is ever so slightly miffed. A demon dragon was meant to take over the realm for Astravar, while the warlock stayed in a tower with a nice cup of tea and watched the conquest from afar. But it didn't quite work that way... Now, as a mysterious student prodigy emerges...

Disgruntled Gilbert the goblin argues that dragons are terrible and not nearly as frightening as he is, but perspectives change when knights arrive to capture a dragon.

Sapphire the dragon likes the flowers and soft grass in what she hopes is her new home, but the forest animals are afraid of her. She'll try to prove to them that she's not like other dragons.

Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.

Four children set out to capture a unicorn, but it manages to escape all of their traps. How to Catch series features one of the world's most elusive mythical creatures -- the unicorn! Filled with zany traps and lots of rainbow unicorn fun, this is the unicorn book of the year!

"If you woke up as a sentient egg in some random forest, I bet you'd be confused, too. That's exactly what happened to me, in the oddest turn of events... Being reborn as a little egg has its challenges, but luckily, with all these monsters out to eat me, I'm gaining experience quick. Once I bust out of this shell, a cool new form better await me -- that is, if I survive long enough!"--Back cover.

Elodie, the dragon detective Meenore, and the kindly ogre Count Jonty Um are all on their way to Elodie's home island of Lahnt. Elodie has barely set foot on land before she learns that the Replica, a statue that keeps her island's deadly volcano from erupting, has been stolen! If the Replica isn't found in three days, a mountain will be destroyed. And when Elodie ends up alone with a cast of characters each of whom may be guilty, she has to use her...