The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan

Author:Jonathan Strahan [Strahan, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Hinton didn’t have a real library. Technically, the high school library was open to the public during school hours, but the librarian had ideas about the kinds of people who should be allowed to walk through the door. And in grade eleven, Bea had been banned. That might be sixteen years ago, but as far as she knew, she was still banned.

Still, Bea needed information and the library was the only place to get it.

After talking to the Mountie, she’d parked her bus at the hockey arena and walked over the playing fields toward the high school. Across the road, the pulp mill’s stink-stacks belched rotten-egg vapor that drifted over the high school in a yellow haze.

She slipped into the library, walked softly to the reference shelf on the back wall, and pulled out Encyclopedia Britannica Volume D. The entry on dragons was subtitled “mythological creature.” She examined the illustrations. Clearly her dragon was the European type. Its snaky head and batlike wings matched the picture.

In European myth, it said, dragons terrorized entire valleys. After eating all the sheep, they’d start eating children.

Sheep. The sheep in the picture were fairy-tale versions, white and fluffy—nothing like bighorn sheep, with their sleek brown fur and curling horns. But the sheep under Roche Miette were gone. Did that mean the children were next?

“Bea Oulette.”

Bea slammed the encyclopedia closed. Mrs. English watched her over the edge of her reading glasses.

“You’re not allowed in here,” she said. “You’re banned.”

Bea slipped the book back on the shelf and padded toward the door, keeping her eyes low.

“High school was a long time ago,” she said softly as she passed the checkout desk.

“Not for me,” the librarian snarled. “Don’t come back.”

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