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The Last Dragon
Jane Yolen
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It's not that Tansy is lazy. She'll work if you ask her, but her mind is so totally focused on herbs. She takes after her dad, the village healer. It drives her mother and her practical sister Rosemary, and even her flibbertigibbet sister Sage, totally crazy that she's not there to help when she is needed.
Tansy is usually in the forest, looking for this or that to stew into a potion, salve, or other concoction. So when she stumbles across Dragon's Bane, both she and her father are
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flummoxed. This plant only exists where there are dragons...and the dragons have all been killed off more than 200 years ago!
But there is a dragon. It's egg was protected in a very ancient tree all this time and now it is free—free to eat wild life and livestock...and unsuspecting villagers! This is no cute little dragon. This is a huge overgrown fire-breathing lizard!
The village needs a hero. What they find is a tall,
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