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The Last Dragonby Susan Miho Nunes, Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet
Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995, 30pp, $14.95
Peter finds a dusty dragon in a Chinatown store while visiting his great aunt.
EXCERPT:
he dragon hung in the window of the Lung Fung Trading Company on Jefferson
Street collecting dust, cobwebs, and bug skeletons. He was blind, speechless too, for
his jaws had been wired tightly shut. His only companions were his severed tail, two
empty shipping crates, and a jar of salted duck eggs.
Far away from Jefferson Street, Peter Chang had learned he would spend the summer
in Chinatown with Great Aunt.
"Why?" Peter asked.
She's my oldest, wisest aunt," said Peter's mother. "You must get to know her."
Peter's father agreed.
But Peter did not. He didn't want to spend his summer in a small apartment above a
noodle factory. They sent him anyway.
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