![]() ![]() The desperately poor residents of the town wait, hidden and protected, until the last moment possible, then rush out into the fields to scavenge the debris left behind. ![]() When we first meet thirteen year old Piper Linny, she is preparing for one of the violent, deadly meteor storms that regularly hits near her home, Scrap Town Number Sixteen. The Mark of the Dragonfly has to be one of the best middle grade fantasy novels I have read in quite a while, even more so because Johnson takes ideas that we are now well familiar with (and possibly even tired of) and quickly and masterfully blends them into the amazing world she has created, making something that feels new and familiar at the same time, and in the best way possible. The fantastic jacket art for The Mark of the Dragonfly is by Nigel Quarless. The Mark of the Dragonfly is the debut middle grade novel by Jaleigh Johnson, a gamer whose previous work has been tie-in novels set in the Forgotten Realms fiction line. ![]()
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