For Ages
8 to 12

A Dragon's Guide to Making Your Human Smarter is a part of the A Dragon's Guide collection.

For fans of How to Train Your Dragon comes a new tale about dragon Miss Drake and her human pet Winnie, by a two-time Newbery Honor winner, featuring illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Mary GrandPré.
 
Three-thousand-year-old Miss Drake has arranged to send her dear pet Winnie to The Spriggs Academy, an extraordinary school for humans and magicals alike. Winnie is particularly excited about magic class and having Sir Isaac Newton for science. She’s also making…

An Excerpt fromA Dragon's Guide to Making Your Human Smarter

CHAPTER ONE

 

Unless you are willing to keep your pet safe and make your pet smarter, collect stamps instead.

 

 

MISS DRAKE

 

 

I thought Winnie looked quite fetching in her new uniform and said so.

 

She drew her eyebrows together in puzzlement. “Fetching?”

 

“Pretty, winsome--like your name,” I explained.

 

She plucked at the hem of her blue-and-black plaid skirt. “You don’t think the uniforms are sort of old-fashioned?”

 

“It speeds up socialization when you can skip criticizing one another’s clothes and can go directly to criticizing one another’s characters,” I said. “Just be grateful you’re not wearing bloomers.”

 

The wrinkled forehead again. “Bloomers?”

 

“They were pants girls used to wear in physical education. They made you look like you were wearing a deflated balloon,” I said.

 

She sighed. “Sometimes I need subtitles when you talk.”

 

“Don’t be silly,” I said. “The whole point of going to school is to learn enough so you can understand me.”

 

“I still say subtitles would be easier,” she said, and pointed at the tablet in my hand. “After school, when I come back, I’ll find a translation app for you.”

 

I raised my…

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