Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

My Father's Dragon

a novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett

A boy named Elmer runs away to Wild Island to rescue a captive baby dragon, outwitting fierce animals with clever supplies. These 8 Part workbooks cover the whole story — each with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing, plus wild-animal and geography background lessons.

Level 1Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

📖 Recommended edition: This classic has many editions. We follow the standard Random House (Yearling) edition of Ruth Stiles Gannett’s text.

Level 1 · Growing ReadersUS Grades 1–3Lexile 380–970LAR 2.9–5.6

📖 Get the right book: our workbooks follow the Yearling — Random House (paperback) edition — ISBN 9780440421214. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🐉 Wild Island & Its Animals

Jungle islands, tigers, rhinos, lions and crocodiles — the real animals Elmer outwits.

SUPPORTING

🧠 Clever, Sideways Thinking

Solving big problems with small, surprising ideas instead of force.

SUPPORTING

📜 Trickster Tales

Outsmarting fearsome beasts — the folktale tradition behind the adventure.

8-Part Novel Study

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