Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

Jeremy does his best to keep Tiamet calm and quiet, but she can feel his emotions and definitely reacts when Jeremy has strong feelings about something! To make matters worse, no one else can see Tiamet but Mary Lou (Jeremy’s arch-nemesis, aka the girl who has a crush on him at school!) so everyone thinks that Jeremy is acting a little crazy! Tiamet accidentally destroys a dinner party, sets a teacher’s shoe on fire, and eats up all of Jeremy’s allowance in chicken livers and milk. There is something so magical about having a dragon in your life for a short while! The dragon, whom Jeremy names Tiamet, has a huge personality and gets Jeremy into quite a bit of mischief while he tries to take care of her and learn all he can about dragons. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher is the first book that I read in the Magic Shop Book series and it is still one of my favorites. Special instructions come with Jeremy’s purchase – instructions that tell Jeremy how to raise a dragon from the egg! This stone couldn’t possible be a real dragon egg, could it? A beautiful, colorful stone catches his eye and Jeremy persuades the shopkeeper to let him buy it. It is some kind of magic shop, but the items for sale are unlike any Jeremy has ever seen. Jeremy is trying to escape some bullies when he stumbles across a shop he has never seen in his small hometown before. Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (November 2007)

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville