Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Published by Versify on September 24th 2019
ISBN: 0358006074
Pages: 416
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Anya lives in a village and shares the area in and around the village magical creatures live. The czar sends one of his men to capture a dragon he thinks is in her village. Anya agrees to help because it pays well and she need the money. But, as the hunt progresses ,she begins to wonder if capturing a dragon is really the right thing to do. The beginning seemed a bit slow which might cause some readers to not want to finish the story. Also, the number of unusual names of many of the characters were kind of tough to keep straight. But once Anya is part of the posse hunting the dragon, the story was quite good. A nice twist or two in here as well. For grades 4 and up.

 

Mary Lehmer, Youth Services Librarian, Freeport Community Library.