Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. SUBJECTS: Fiction, Size and Shape, Friendship, Animals, Size.
If you had to make a choice in the magic shop what would it be, the Chines rings, the Skull of Truth or the Dragon's egg. And if you did buy the dragon's egg, what would you do when you found out your were supposed to hatch it?.
In a dark and eerie magic shop, Jeremy finds a multicolored ball containing a dragon--a tiny thing that speaks through mental telepathy. Soon, it will begin to grow, and grow, and grow.