02908cam a2200433 i 4500 2844602088 TxAuBib 20260820120000.0 241024s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024050152 9780374393120 hardcover 0374393125 hardcover (OCoLC)1525436762 TxAuBib rda Dodd, Lily Berlin, author. The last ember / Lily Berlin Dodd. First edition. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025. ©2025. 345 pages : color maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Aerimander Chronicles, The ; 1 Maps on lining pages. Twelve-year-old Eva and orphan Dusty race against time to keep a rare aerimander egg, an unhatched dragon-like creature, out of the wrong hands. Aerimanders are extinct. Or so the government would have you think. Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Glaucus decreed the destruction of these dangerous, dragon-like creatures whose deadly flame could level entire cities and upend world orders. But when twelve-year-old Eva Alexander, a wealthy chemistry student in the city of Porttown, walks into a fashionable department store and walks out (accidentally) with the world's last aerimander egg, everything changes. Suddenly, Eva is the target of unwanted attention, including from the Thieves' Union, a mysterious organization with a rebellious streak and fingers in every pie in Porttown. The Union orders its youngest member, the orphaned dairy delivery boy Dusty St. Ichabod, to steal the egg from Eva. Which is far easier said than done. When Eva and Dusty meet one autumn night under extraordinary circumstances, an epic game of cat and mouse unfolds across the Kingdom. Initially at odds, the unlikely pair must come together to navigate a maze of sinister crime syndicates, elite boarding schools, and an incredibly slow getaway pony named Gourd, all while fighting to keep the egg out of the hands of power-hungry Eoin Parnassus, Director of Kingdom Secrets. As the duo races against time, their fates and that of the whole world are at stake. Because there's one question no one dares to ask: What happens when the egg hatches? Ages 10-14. Farrar Straus Giroux. Grades 7-9. Farrar Straus Giroux. 20260820. Eggs Juvenile fiction. Animals, Mythical Juvenile fiction. Dragons Juvenile fiction. Theft Juvenile fiction. Orphans Juvenile fiction. Fantasy fiction. fast Action and adventure fiction. fast The Aerimander Chronicles ; 1.