Beatrice Beaufort and the Serpenti Quest

Beatrice Beaufort is an ordinary eleven year old girl living her ordinary life, fighting with her brother and watching her single mother struggle to provide. Soon, however, she will discover she is nothing like her definition of normal. When her mother is kidnapped and taken to another world, Beatrice must follow and try to save her. Along the way she will discover she is the last to possess her unique gift to speak to dragon-like creatures called Serpenti. Will she be able to find and persuade these creatures to help her in time to save her mother? Will she be able to defeat the forces of darkness that work against her and threaten her family? Summerson's first novel paints vivid pictures and gives solid characters we can root for... or against.