Dragons


Dealing With Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede
Y Fic Wre

Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons’ kingdom. Sequels: Searching For Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons.

subjects: Dragons, Wizards, Princesses


The Discovery of Dragons
Graeme Base
J Fic Bas

A Victorian scientist chronicles the discovery of dragons on various continents. The illustrations are phenomenal.

subjects: Dragons


Dragon Hunter
Hong-Seock Seo
GN Y Dra

In the Kaya province, there are two ways to rise in power - by controlling dragons or by slaying them. Seur-Chong, a hunter with the Dragon’s Curse, took the latter path, but he doesn’t care about power. He’s just in the dragon slaying business for the money. With his partner, the gifted shaman Myung-Ho, he’s quickly made a name for himself as a mercenary. Perhaps too big a name, as a rival dragon-hunting group, the Chunjoo, is now out to eliminate the duo. In order to keep off the Chunjoo’s hitlist, Seur-Chong and Myung-Ho will have to join their payroll.

subjects: Graphic Novels, Dragons-Comic Books-Strips-Etc.


Dragon of the Lost Sea
Laurence Yep
Y Fic Yep

Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy. Sequels: Dragon Steel, Dragon Cauldron, Dragon War.

subjects: Fantasy


The Dragon of Never-was
Ann Downer
Y Fic Dow

With the help of a bottle of blue fire and a magical brooch, Theodora searches for a dragon on an island off the coast of Scotland before it causes any harm.

subjects: Wizards, Dragons, Magic, Scotland


Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke
Y Fic Fun

After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.

awards: Beehive Award Nominees: 2006, Bluegrass Award Nominees: 2006

subjects: Fantasy, Dragons, Animals-Mythical


Dragon's Bait
Vivian Vande Velde
Y Fic Van

Wrongly condemned of witchcraft, fifteen-year-old Alys is tempted to take revenge on her accusers when the dragon to which she has been sacrificed turns out to be an ally.

subjects: Dragons, Revenge, Fantasy


Dragon's Keep
Janet Lee Carey
Y Fic Fle

In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.

subjects: Princesses, Dragons, Mothers and Daughters, Kings and Rulers, Human Abnormalities, British Isles


Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Alison Goodman
Y FIC GOO

Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.

subjects: Fantasy, Dragons, Sex Role, Apprentices, Magic


Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Y Fic Pao

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. Sequels: Eldest, Brisingr

awards: Texas Lone Star Reading List: 2005, Texas Tayshas Reading List: 2005, Volunteer State Book Award Nominees: 2006

subjects: Dragons, Fantasy


The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Y Fic Kin or Fic Kin

A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, this is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.

subjects: Fantasy


Falcon's Egg
Luli Gray
Y Fic Gra

Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made Falcon very responsible for a eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she finds a unusual egg in Central Park. Sequels: Falcon and the Charles Street Witch, Falcon and the Carousel of Time.

subjects: Dragons, Mothers and Daughters, New York (N.Y.)


Flight of the Dragon Kyn
Susan Fletcher
Y Fic Fle

Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his jealous brother Rog.

subjects: Fantasy, Dragons, Kings-Queens-Rules-etc.


Hatching Magic
Ann Downer
Y Fic Dow

When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.

awards: Great Stone Face Award Nominees: 2005, West Virginia Children’s Book Award Nominees: 2006, Rhode Island Children’s Book Award Nominees: 2005

subjects: Wizards, Dragons, Time Travel, Magic, Fathers and Daughters, Nannies


Here, There Be Dragons
James A. Owen
Y Fic Owe

Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World. Sequels: The Search for the Red Dragon, The Indigo King, The Shadow Dragons.

subjects: Time Travel, Fantasy


Here There Be Dragons
Jane Yolen
Y SS Yol

In Here There Be Dragons, dragons appear in every guise—ghastly, ghoulish, gentle, gargantuan—always endowed with the author’s ingenious touches. Each piece is introduced with the fascinating, and often revealing, story of its making and is illustrated with the intricate, moody pencil drawings of David Wilgus.

subjects: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Short Stories


The Last Dragon
Silvana De Mari
Y Fic Dem

Struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic world after his village is destroyed, Yorsh, the earth's last elf, must embark on a perilous quest to decipher a powerful prophecy and find the last dragon, who holds the key to saving the world from the Dark Age that has begun.

subjects: Dragons


On the Wings of a Dragon
Cora Taylor
Y Fic Tay

A young girl suffering from amnesia imprisoned in a tower, a missing king, a tyrannical queen, and a dragon. This story is packed with action.

subjects: Dragons, Fantasy


Pillage
Obert Skye
Y Fic Sky

Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.

subjects: Magic, Blessing and Cursing, Eccentrics and Eccentricities, Dragons, Uncles, Household Employees, Identity


The Prophecy
Hilari Bell
Y Fic Bel

Guided by the words of a prophecy, Prince Perryndon, who loves books more than swords, sets out to slay the black dragon that is destroying his kingdom.

subjects: Princes, Bards and Bardism, Unicorns, Magic Dragons


List updated April 2009—Patti Cook


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