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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1989 by Susan Fletcher

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The text for this book is set in Goudy Old Style.

0210 MTN

First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition March 2010

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Fletcher, Susan, 1951–

Dragon’s milk / Susan Fletcher.

p.   cm.

Summary: Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try to save her younger sister who needs dragon’s milk to recover from an illness.

ISBN 978-0-689-31579-4 [hc]

[1. Dragons—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.F6356 Dr 1989

[Fic]—dc19

88035059

ISBN 978-1-4169-9712-2 [pbk]

ISBN 978-1-4424-0707-7 [eBook]