The Dragon in the Glassworks

He climbed the mountain to say goodbye to his father. He came down carrying a dragon egg.One year after the rockfall that killed his father, twelve-year-old Pell Garrow sneaks past the Wardens’ warning signs and up to the forbidden quarry. When the mountain shifts, it uncovers a hollow of smooth black glass, and inside it an egg as cold as stone.Dragons have been gone for a hundred years. Everyone in Saltmere knows it. Hiding one is treason.But in the heat of his grandmother’s glassworks furnace, the egg begins to glow, and beat like a heart, and one stormy night it hatches. Out steps Kettle: a dragon with scales like smoked glass, a whistle like a boiling kettle, and a fire hot enough to turn sand into the clearest glass anyone has ever seen.Keeping her secret takes Pell, his best friend Dabs, and June, the sharp-eyed daughter of the Warden Captain. Then a patient, silver-haired commander arrives from the capital carrying an ancient horn that no dragon can hear without crying out. Kettle is growing fast. Midwinter is coming. And the truth about Pell’s family, and his father, is buried under the cellar floor.The Dragon in the Glassworks is a story about grief and courage, about friendship that has to choose between loyalty and the law, and about a town that has forgotten the song it once sang to its dragons.For readers who love dragon stories, found-family friendships, and brave kids who keep the most dangerous secret in town.