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March 2010 Theme -- Let Thar' Be Dragons
The arrival of a dragon sends the village into a buzz of activity, providing Phoney with a good opportunity to sell beer and Thorn with an unexpected connection to her past. Meanwhile, danger lurks in the form of the rat creature Kingdok. || Explains how myths about dragons developed, different types of dragons, what draconologists do, and how different cultures portray dragons. ||= //**Eragon**// by Christopher Paolini (Gr. 5-12) 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. Paolini continues the series with //Eldest// and //Brisingr//. || This collection of 13 dragons is loaded with sketches, drawings, anatomical studies, detailed diagrams, brief natural histories and step-by-step colour art demonstrations for each animal showing the process of making dragon images from start to finish. ||= //**The Dragon and the Thief: a Dragonback Adventure** // by Timothy Zahn. (Gr. 4-6) After his first host is killed in battle, Draycos, a warrior from a dragon-like, symbiotic race, is forced to latch onto teenager Jack Morgan to survive, whereupon the two join forces--literally--to find those who have wronged them… .the first in the //Dragonback// series. || The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home. ||= //**Dragonflight** // by Anne McCaffrey (Gr. 9-12) At a time when the number of Dragonriders has fallen too low for safety and only one Weyr trains the creatures and their riders, the Red Star approaches Pern, threatening it with disaster. The first in nearly 30 novels on the Dragonriders of Pern. || //**Dragon’s Bait** // by Velde Vande (Gr. 5-10) 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.
 * = [[image:dragon.gif width="210" height="143"]] ||= //**Bone… The Dragonslayer Vol. 4**// by Jeff Smith (Gr. 7-12)
 * = //**Behold – the Dragons!**// By Gail Gibbons (K-Gr 4)
 * = //**Dracopedia : a Guide to Drawing the Dragons of the World** // by William O’Connor (Gr. 7-12)
 * = //**Dragon War**// by Laurence Yep (Gr. 6-10)

//**Dragon’s Keep** // by Janet Lee Carey (Gr. 6-12) 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.//Dragon’s Milk// by Susan Fletcher. Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try to save her younger sister, who needs dragon's milk to recover from an illness.

//**Eon: Dragoneye Reborn** // by Alison Goodman (Gr. 6-12) 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. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**The Fire Within** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Chris D’Lacey (Gr.1-5) When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. //Icefire// and //Fire Star// follows in the series.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**If I had a Dragon** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Amanda and Tom Ellery (PreK- 2) Explains how myths about dragons developed, different types of dragons, what draconologists do, and how different cultures portray dragons.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**Kenny & the Dragon** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Tony DiTerlizzi (Gr. 3-6) Book-loving Kenny the rabbit has few friends in his farming community, so when one, bookstore owner George, is sent to kill another, gentle dragon Grahame, Kenny must find a way to prevent their battle while satisfying the dragon-crazed townspeople.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**The Knight and the Dragon** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Tomie de Paola (Gr. K-2) A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**Saint George and the Dragon: a Golden Legend** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Margaret Hodges (PreK-2) Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**A Sending of Dragons** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Jane Yolen (Gr. 7-10) Falsely accused of sabotage, Jakkin and Akki are left to certain death in the wilderness of the planet Austar IV but, with the aid of five baby dragons; manage not only to survive but also to gain unusual powers and insights. The third of the //Pit Dragon trilogy//.

//**Spark the Firefighter**// by Stephen Krensky (PreK-1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Spark the dragon takes a job with the Hardscrabble volunteer fire department with the hope that it will cure his fear of fire and allow him to finally become a proper dragon.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">**World’s Oldest Living Dragon** //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;"> by Kate McMullan (Gr. 1-6) Wiglaf and his classmates come to appreciate their elders when they learn that only a group of retired knights can save their school from the world's oldest living dragon, Grizzlegore--if they can get back in shape in time. One of several titles in the //Dragon Slayers’ Academy// series.