Transformed by her adoptive magician father from a dragon into a girl, Ember is unable to completely hide her dragon qualities and is sent to live in her eccentric aunt’s Antarctica research station, where she sabotages an annual dragon hunt. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. - (Baker & Taylor)

Unable to control her tendency to burst into flame, twelve-year-old Ember, a dragon transformed into a girl by her foster father, is sent to Antarctica where she tries to save ice dragons from extinction. - (Baker & Taylor)

A stunning middle grade fantasy about a girl who used to be a dragon and her adventure to save her new home'from Even the Darkest Stars author Heather Fawcett. Perfect for fans of the Nevermoor and His Dark Materials series.

Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father'a powerful but accident-prone Magician'turned her into a human girl to save her life.

Unfortunately, Ember's growing tendency to burst into flames at certain temperatures'not to mention her invisible wings'is making it too dangerous for her to stay in London. The solution: ship Ember off to her aunt's research station in frigid Antarctica.

Though eccentric Aunt Myra takes getting used to, Ember quickly feels at home in a land of ice storms, mischievous penguins, and twenty-four-hour nights. She even finds herself making friends with a girl genius called Nisha and a mysterious orphan named Moss.

Then she discovers that Antarctica is home to the Winterglass Hunt, a yearly tradition in which rare ice dragons are hunted for their jeweled scales. Furious, Ember decides to join the hunt to sabotage it from the inside.

But being an undercover dragon isn't easy'especially among dragon hunters. Can a twelve-year-old fire dragon survive the dangers that come her way in the Antarctic wilderness and protect the ice dragons from extinction?

A stunning middle grade fantasy about a girl who used to be a dragon and her adventure to save her new home—from Even the Darkest Stars author Heather Fawcett. Perfect for fans of the Nevermoor and His Dark Materials series.

Ember St. George is a dragon. At least she was before her adoptive father—a powerful but accident-prone Magician—turned her into a human girl to save her life.

Unfortunately, Ember’s growing tendency to burst into flames at certain temperatures—not to mention her invisible wings—is making it too dangerous for her to stay in London. The solution: ship Ember off to her aunt’s research station in frigid Antarctica.

Though eccentric Aunt Myra takes getting used to, Ember quickly feels at home in a land of ice storms, mischievous penguins, and twenty-four-hour nights. She even finds herself making friends with a girl genius called Nisha and a mysterious orphan named Moss.

Then she discovers that Antarctica is home to the Winterglass Hunt, a yearly tradition in which rare ice dragons are hunted for their jeweled scales. Furious, Ember decides to join the hunt to sabotage it from the inside.

But being an undercover dragon isn’t easy—especially among dragon hunters. Can a twelve-year-old fire dragon survive the dangers that come her way in the Antarctic wilderness and protect the ice dragons from extinction?

Booklist Reviews

Being a 12-year-old girl can be challenging in the best circumstances, but it's exponentially harder when you possess a pair of invisible wings and are prone, in warm weather, to bursting into flames. Ember is a dragon girl—born a dragon but magicked into a human child by her rescuer-turned-adoptive-father. Though she appears human, a few peculiar dragon traits remain, so fire-prone Ember abandons Victorian London for her aunt's scientific outpost in Antarctica, where she quickly finds herself in a different type of dragon drama. Fawcett's feisty female protagonist inhabits a world that is familiar but not completely identical to ours, a place where magic coexists with science, Great Britain actively rules Antarctica, and dragons are hunted to near extinction. The influence of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (1996)—cited as one of the author's favorite books—is strong here in the best possible way. Stunning descriptions and well-rounded characters are woven into a story that hums with excitement and adventure, which will leave readers wanting more of Ember and her magical world. Grades 3-6. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

Kirkus Reviews

Twelve-year-old Ember tries to save ice dragons and learns her own strength along the way. Infant fire dragon Ember is discovered in Wales by Lionel St. George, a brilliant but error-prone Stormancer and Magician, near the bodies of her slain, fire-dragon parents, hunted down for their valuable scales. To protect her, Lionel casts a spell to disguise Ember as a human child, and she grows up at Chesterfield University, where Lionel teaches. In human form, Ember has the fire dragon's ability to create fire, but she can't control it. Distraught after she burns Lionel's office, Ember decides to live in Antarctica at the research station Lionel's sister runs. Fawcett's story starts out slowly, with a tad too much explanation, but the plot picks up intriguingly as Ember, homesick in Antarctica, is befriended by Nisha, the child of one of the station's scientists, and the mysterious orphan Moss. When Ember learns that there is to be a Winterglass Hunt to kill ice dragons for their scales, she is horrified and determines to sabotage it. Neatly sidestepping tropes and templ ates, Fawcett's story is full of original details that add depth to the fairly straightforward plot (Montgomery, the enchanted, cantankerous doorknob, is a hoot). But it is the richly nuanced primary and secondary characters, as well as the evenhanded inclusion of females as intelligent scientists, that give the story its richness. The cast is racially varied; Ember, her adoptive family, and Moss read as white while Nisha has brown skin. Fresh and original. (Fantasy. 9-12) Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.