Handbook for Dragon Slayers (28 page)

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Summary: Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.

ISBN 978-0-06-200816-9 (hardcover bdg.)

EPub Edition April 2013 ISBN 9780062208422

[1. Fairy tales. 2. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction.

3. Princesses—Fiction. 4. People with disabilities—Fiction. 5. Dragons—Fiction. 6. Authorship—Fiction. 7. Books and reading—Fiction.]

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