The emotions the book stirred up was amazement, werid and embarrassed.  Its stirred up with all those emotions when Jeremy hatched the dragon, Mary Lou tried to kiss Jeremy at school,also when Jeremy had to touch the chicken livers to feed Tiamat.

The big message in the story is how to feed and care for a dragon.  The lesson the book is tring to tell you is don’t get your emotions up when you have a fire breathing dragon.