Dealing with Dragons

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 - Juvenile Fiction - 212 pages
Cimorene is everything a princess is "not" supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish and smart. She is so bored that she runs away to live with a dragon and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.
 

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Contents

In Which Cimorene Refuses to Be Proper and Has a Conversation with a Frog
1
In Which Cimorene Discovers the Value of a Classical Education and Has Some Unwelcome Visitors
14
In Which Cimorene Meets a Witch and Has Doubts about a Wizard
31
In Which Kazul Has a Dinner Party and Cimorene Makes Dessert
43
In Which Cimorene Receives a Formal Call from Her Companions in Dire Captivity
57
In Which the Wizards Do Some Snooping and Cimorene Snoops Back
74
In Which Cimorene and Kazul Make a Journey Underground
90
In Which Cimorene and Kazul Pay a Call and Cimorene Gets into a Fight
100
In Which Therandil Is a Dreadful Nuisance and Cimorene Casts a Spell
113
In Which Cimorene and Alianora Conduct Some Tests and Disturb a Wizard
128
In Which Kazul Is Unwell and Cimorene Makes a New Acquaintance
145
In Which Cimorene Calls on a Dragon and the Stone Prince Discovers a Plot
161
In Which Alianora Discovers an Unexpected Use for Soap and Water and Cimorene Has Difficulty with a Dragon
173
In Which the Wizards Try to Make Trouble and Cimorene Does Something about It
184
In Which the Dragons Crown a New King and Cimorene Gets a New Job
196

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About the author (2002)

Patricia Collins Wrede is an American fantasy writer, born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois; she is the eldest of five children. She graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in Biology. She earned an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977. She finished her first book in 1978. She is a full-time writer. She is a vegetarian and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her three cats.