Max Kowalski can’t stay out of trouble. It’s not his fault. He’s just like his dad, Big Pete Kowalski: always in bother, always laughing it off.
When Dad disappears, it’s up to Max to take charge and look after his three little sisters: Thelma, Louise and Ripley. Just until Dad comes home. Because he’ll be home for Christmas, right?
Determined to keep the family together, Max takes his sisters to a remote village in Snowdonia, north Wales, where they can hide in a friend’s old cottage. There among the snowy mountains he finds new friends, new questions, and an ancient Welsh legend – of a sleeping dragon, guarding a lake of gold. Can Max keep his family safe, and defeat a dragon too? And is that really what he wants?
A warm, funny and emotional coming-of-age story for readers aged 8-12, about families, sheep, and what it really means to be a man.
If Jacqueline Wilson ganged up with Alan Garner and remixed A Monster Calls, with dragons. Powerful and deep.
Louie stowell
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