· 2017 Copyright – Amazon Best Book of the Month – June – Grades 4-6
· Genre: Fantasy
· Grade Level: 3rd - 7th
· Reading Level: 4th
· Length: 256 pages
· Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (May 30, 2017)
· My Rating: 4 out of 4
· Readability: Fun dragon story and enjoyable to read.
· Not eligible for MHL or Newbery because the author lives in Wales.
Summary: After drinking enchanted hot
chocolate, a brave young dragon is transformed into a twelve-year-old human
girl with a passion for chocolate.
Adventurine is a young
dragon who is bored and restless and decides to leave the safety of her cave
and family and seek adventure. The first
person she encounters is a magician who turns her into a girl after inviting
her to drink a cup of hot chocolate. Who
could blame him, because he doesn’t want to get eaten himself! After the transformation, Adventurine sets
off to the village to figure out how to live as a girl. She has also fallen in
love with chocolate and sets off to get more to satisfy her intense
craving. The village happens to have
three chocolate restaurants and she figures that finding work in one of these
establishments. Of course, not
understanding the culture of people gets her into all kinds of trouble. But the real trouble is when the dragons
start searching for Adventurine and as a result put fear into the village
people.
What a fun fantasy
story about dragons! I admit, it is a
girly cover and the audience will probably be girls. I can picture this book
being a great movie!
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