Falcon's Egg

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature nominee 1996.

Eleven-year-old Falcon has just found a mysterious egg in Central Park – a dragon's egg, though she doesn't know it yet. And when the egg hatches, magic will hatch with it. Falcon will begin to see her hectic life and eccentric family in a different and altogether more joyous way. After all, when magic comes into someone's life, it comes for a reason.