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The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
1974
First Published
3.30
Average Rating
128
Number of Pages

Andy's not your average resident of exclusive Foxmeadow—whenever he sits down to draw something, it turns out to be a dragon. And he wants to be a detective when he grows up—not just an ordinary, everyday police detective, but a tough, cool, famous detective like the ones he reads about in mystery novels. Everyone knows a famous detective needs a sidekick, but Mrs. Edie Yakots, a lonely new bride who's just moved into Foxmeadow, isn't exactly what Andy had in mind—he sometimes has a hard time just figuring out what's she's talking about. But she's the only volunteer for the job, and before he knows it, she's led him right into the middle of his first real crime—in an inner-city neighborhood a short drive, and light years away, from Foxmeadow.

Avg Rating
3.30
Number of Ratings
150
5 STARS
11%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
43%
2 STARS
12%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

E.L. Konigsburg
E.L. Konigsburg
Author · 23 books
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She was the only author to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year (1968), with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Kongisburg won a second Newbery Medal in 1997 for The View from Saturday, 29 years later, the longest span between any two Newberys awarded to one author.
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