Dragon's Green

Gr 4–7—Does magic exist? Euphemia (Effie) Truelove, a student from the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled, and Strange, discovers that her destiny is to find the answer. Effie's eccentric grandfather, Griffin, hints that magic exists, but he is banned from using it. When Griffin begins to teach Effie about magical thinking, he mysteriously dies. A silver ring and drawstring pouch full of trinkets belonging to her grandfather are secretly passed to her by the hospital staff. Excited to inherit her grandfather's unusual library of magical books, Effie realizes that she's been duped out of ownership by an unscrupulous man named Leonard Levar. Knowing she must retrieve her grandfather's magical library, she undertakes an extraordinary adventure full of intrigue and magical quests. The story lags a little in the middle, but there are many fun and endearing moments, magical wonder, new experiences, and rabbit holes along the way.