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When John notices a manhole cover with the words ACE DRAGON LTD. written across it, he can’t help but investigate what lies beneath. And so begins an unusual friendship between a boy and a dragon named Ace, who wears two pairs of Wellington boots and loves skywriting with fire, flying stunts to the moon, and turning gold into straw.