Content: G (mild danger)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Anya is determined to travel to Rum to retrieve her father from the danger there. When she and her friends, Ivan, the Fool, and Hakon, the dragon (yes, really a dragon) step through the door presented to them by ibbur, the female ghost that helped Any when Hakon was in trouble, they find themselves outside of Kiev, instead, and Hakon has been turned into a human! Being a human is not easy for a dragon – Hakon has to practice a lot to control it. But there is no time, as in order to get the tsar’s help rescuing Anya’s father, they will have to bring him the Nightgale, a being who has been terrorizing all of the travelers on one of the roads to Kiev. Anya is not intimidated; hasn’t she already faced danger when she was rescuing Hakon? With the boys’ help, she will face any danger to reunite her family.
Again – you will need to hand sell this. Pasternack waits only 25% of the book to get to the point – sending the trio to Kiev, but it is still too long. Wait and buy thi sin paperback.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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