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Author:

Allende, Isabel.

Title:

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

Edition:

1st Harper Perennial ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2004

Description:

437, 30 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Buried treasure--Fiction.
Buddhism--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Himalaya Mountains--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Peden, Margaret Sayers.

Other Titles:

Reino del dragón de oro. English

Notes:

Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2004. With additional material.

Contents:

The land of snow and ice -- The valley of the Yetis -- Three fabulous eggs -- The collector -- Eagle and jaguar -- Cobras -- The sect of the scorpion -- In the Forbidden Kingdom -- Kidnapped -- Borob? -- The white eagle -- The totemic jaguar -- Medicine for the mind -- The golden dragon -- The cave of the bandits -- The cliff -- The Yeti warriors -- The fortified monastery -- The battle -- The prince.

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

ISBN:

0061825123
9780061825125 (pbk.) :

LCCN:

bc2021191005

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)