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Elliott, Zetta. DRAGONS IN A BAG New York : Random House Children's Books, [2018] IL 3-6 ISBN 9781524770457 (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 Jaxon thought his mom was all he had until Jaxon’s mom has to find a way to stay in their apartment and everything that Jaxon knew is questioned. Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, who is no one more than a stranger to him. And it gets weirder: on her kitchen table lies a package with stamps from Madagascar all over it… and it moves. Jaxon is intrigued. Dragons, dinosaurs, an invisible man, and more await Jaxon as he discovers who Ma is, where his family comes from and where his grandfather has been. Will Jaxson be able to help Ma and find his way home before his mother comes back to get him? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she’s not his grandmother–but she is a witch! She needs help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they’ll be safe. There are two rules when it comes to the dragons: don’t let them out of the bag and don’t feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends have broken both rules! Will Jax get the baby dragons delivered safe and sound? Or will they be lost in Brooklyn forever? (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: African Americans -- Fiction. Magic -- Fiction. Dragons -- Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. Fantasy. |
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