How to Be a Dragon Without Burning Your Tongue

What if you thought you were becoming a dragon, scale by scale and claw by claw? That's Rozzie's problem after she meets a shadowy beast in a mountain cavern that claims it transformed her into a dragon. Throughout her struggles to cope, an eccentric neighbor becomes her ally, but it is the difficult people in her life (a remote father, a troubled boy, and a ruthless man) who help her learn the secret of being a dragon without burning her tongue.