The Last Ember by Lily Berlin Dodd

The Last Ember by Lily Berlin DoddAerimanders are extinct. Or so the government would have you think, having centuries earlier destroyed the last of these deadly, dragon like creatures. So when wealthy twelve year old chemistry student Eva Alexander unwittingly purchases an aerimander egg, she becomes the target of the Thieves Union and its newest member, thirteen year old orphan Dusty St. Ichabod. But Eva is no easy mark, and soon she and Dusty are driven into a maze of sinister

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