The Dragon's Apprentice: Part 5

By LINDA McNABB

He was so cold he couldn't feel his feet by the time he reached his small room. It was directly off the main stables and smelled strongly of horses and hay. A pile of leather straps lay heaped in a corner. Steffan would have to clean them now, it was his job anyway but Toby had done it for him to try and make friends. Toby sighed. It obviously hadn't worked.

He sat on his small, hard cot and rubbed his feet with equally cold hands. He didn't pack his clothes into the small haversack hanging on the end of his cot, instead he put them all on. Even then he was still cold.

Toby folded up the haversack and shoved it into his coat pocket. He could hear the Master Groom yelling down one end of the stable so he turned the other way and left by a small door at the back.

Publisher: HarperCollins.

Price: $14.95.

Age group: 9-12 yrs.


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