![]() ![]() The school’s president, Praeses, informs her that she’s in Cavernis to fulfill a prophecy-one that pits her against the followers of St. The consumption of a bit of dragon’s blood helps her understand him and other giant reptiles who attend the Academia Sollertibus Hydris, or the Academy for Clever Hydras. When she sees one of its dragon sculptures move, she’s compelled to run toward it, and doing so propels her into the realm of Cavernis, where she reunites with her childhood friend, now called Artorius. One day, she cuts class and visits the famous Chinese theater in Hollywood. Seven years later, Mattie is still scarred by the loss of her friend she hangs out with bullies, drinks, and worries little about failing high school. The girl instead freed her companion in Griffith Park, only to see him vanish through a shimmering portal. Eventually, however, Toutles grew too large to hide in Mattie’s room, so her mother ordered her to take the creature to the zoo. After it hatched, she named the dragon Toutles, and they became best friends. When she was 10 years old, Mattie Sharpe of Burbank, California, found a dragon egg in LA’s Griffith Park. Wolf’s (The Misses Brontë’s Establishment, 2015) YA fantasy delivers a troubled, modern-day teenager to a land populated by kindly dragons and villainous slayers. ![]()
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