Garden of the Purple Dragon is a children's fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson, published on September, 2005, by Macmillan Publishers. It is the second in the Dragonkeeper series and the predecessor to Dragon Moon. It is set in ancient China, during the Han Dynasty, and continues the story of Ping, slave girl turned dragonkeeper.
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