Alliana, girl of dragons
Abe, Julie2024
Book
Once upon a time, Alliana believed in dreams and fairy tales as sweet as spun-sugar clouds. Alliana wished on shooting stars, sure that someday she and her grandmother would be able to travel to the capital city to see the queen. Then her grandmother passed away -- and those dreams disappeared in a disenchanted puff. Now Alliana is forced to attend to the whims of her wicked stepmother -- with long days of cleaning her stepfamily's inn as her skin burns raw or staying up until the crack of dawn to embroider her stepsister's ball gowns. Until she meets two beings who change her life forever -- the first is a young nightdragon who Alliana discovers she can magically talk to. And the second is Nela, a young witch. Nela needs Alliana's help navigating the mysterious abyss, filled with dangerous beasts, a place Alliana knows by heart. Alliana sees Nela's request as a chance to break free of her stepmother's shadow and to seize a chance at a life she's barely dared to hope for -- but there's a risk. If caught, Alliana will be stuck working for her stepmother for the rest of her life. Can Alliana truly make wisps of dreams into her own, better-than-a-fairy-tale happily ever after?
Main title:
Alliana, girl of dragons / Julie Abe ; illustrated by Shan Jiang.
Author:
Abe, Julie, authorJiang, Shan (Commercial artist), illustrator
Work:
Edition:
First trade paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.©2022.
Collation:
xi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company in 2022.
Audience:
Interest age level: Ages 8-12.
ISBN:
9780316300469 (paperback)9780316300353 (hardcover)9780316300568 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6JF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2072687