This is a 2021 Global Read Aloud pick. I'm hoping that this year I can actually connect with another class as we use it for a read aloud. It's a great story! One thing that concerns me is that they only read a couple chapters a week. I'm not sure we can drag it out that long! I'd definitely be interested in reading the next books in the series.
There are lots of topics that could be discussed in this story: diversity, forgiveness, racism, segregation, forgiveness, etc.
In time we could use this as a "book club" book paired with Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher.
Read aloud to my class in October/November2021. It is way better as a read aloud! Then again, most books are.
Notice and Note Signposts
Words of the Wiser
- p. 116 Trub to Jax re: segregation
- p. 128...if you believe
Contrasts and Contradictions
- p. 8 beer
- p. 10 box with no addresses
- p. 48 Ambrose invisible?
Goodreads says:
The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!
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 his 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 Vikram and Kavita have broken both rules! Will Jax get the baby dragons delivered safe and sound? Or will they be lost in Brooklyn forever?
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