makes us feel like failures

Embracing both the spiritual and the practical side

Forced to stage an emergency landing

Which animals live in the jungle

the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family

When Women Were Dragons Hypertension makes us feel like failuresA rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a womans place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. The first adult novel by the Newbery award winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds