Beatrice and the Basilisk (The Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure Series, #1)

12-year-old Beatrice McIlvaine has a problem. It's not sixth grade math. It doesn't involve boys. This problem is bigger than that, and it has a nasty bite.

As Beatrice steels herself to fight a threat to the precarious existence she leads with her single mother and a troubled little brother, she finds she has friends in unexpected places.

A modern parable about love, family, and killing giant flying reptiles, Beatrice and the Basilisk is short (8,000 words) but not entirely sweet. And there's a lesson in there somewhere--if you can see through the dismal night sky, and beyond those dangerous teeth...