Dragon Dreams

LAURA JOY RENNERT

illustrated by
MELANIE FLORIAN

Dial Books for Young Readers an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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Text copyright © 2012 by Laura Joy Rennert

Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Melanie Florian

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rennert, Laura.

Dragon dreams / Laura Joy Rennert ; illustrated by Melanie Florian.

p.   cm. — (Royal Princess Academy)

Summary: Attending her first year at the Royal Princess Academy, Emma prefers soccer to ballroom dancing and dreams of one day riding a dragon.

ISBN: 978-1-101-59139-0

[1. Princesses—Fiction. 2. Individuality—Fiction. 3. Sex role—Fiction. 4. Dragons—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Florian, Melanie, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.R2903Dr 2012

[E]—dc23

2012002851