Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee, bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny’s Book of Everything, is the captivating, magical tale of a courageous girl who saves a baby dragon and, in doing so, rescues her family.
Since her Mother’s boyfriend, Matt, moved in, Pippa doesn’t like to go home. She spends her time at the waterhole fossicking for treasures, as she used to with her best friend, Mika.
Mum’s changed since Matt came, always so anxious that Pip retreats to her bedroom early, turns off the light and tries hard to become non-existent.
But, one day her life is turned around! Pip finds a small, half-dead creature at the waterhole and she knows she has to save it!
Seeking knowledge from memories of her Grandmother’s nurturing of helpless animals, she takes it home. There she assembles the items she needs to save what appears to be a Dragon!!
This is what she finds that may or may not help; a syringe, water, sugar and Weet-bix, sticky tape and scissors.
Will Pip be able to save the Little Fella? And how will she find out where it came from so that it can return?
This sensitive, insightful story delves into issues regarding relationships and the consequences thereof. It deals with the darker side of life that affects children who find themselves in a toxic relationship at home.
It gives hope, however, that, despite anxiety, trauma and loss, there is love, hope, friendship and caring. Also, the present is more than a touch of magic, and always the belief that nothing is insurmountable.
A simply wonderful, heartwarming and compelling must-read for both teens and adults.
ISBN: 9781760526108
Dragon Skin is available in hardback
About Karee Foxlee
Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who writes for both kids and young adults. She grew up in the Australian outback mining town of Mount Isa and still frequently dreams she is walking barefoot along the dry Leichhardt River. Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, Karen’s first novel for children, was published internationally to much acclaim while her second novel for younger readers, A Most Magical Girl, won the Readings Children’s Fiction Prize in 2017 and was CBCA short-listed the same year. Her next book was the internationally successful Lenny’s Book of Everything, which has won multiple awards including the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the Indies Book Award, the Queensland Literary Award, was a CBCA Honour Book and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Karen lives in South East Queensland with her daughter and several animals, including two wicked parrots, who frequently eat parts of her laptop when she isn’t looking. Her passions are her daughter, writing, day-dreaming, baking, running and swimming in the sea.
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