Title: My father's dragon
First published: 1948
Description: A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Subjects: Fiction, Dragons, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, Islands, Slavery, Cats, Rescues, Accelerated Reader, 6.9., Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Dragons, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Animals, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile literature, Restitution conflict resolution, Babysitters, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, African americans, fiction