Grace Lin
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
J LIN
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a
quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
Robin McKinley
Dragonhaven
J SF MCK
When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National
Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in
the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been
killed by a poacher.
Donita K. Paul
Dragonspell (DragonKeeper Chronicles Series)
J PAU
One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future. Once a
slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become
a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn
about the difference between slavery and service.
Malcolm Sanders
The Dragon Chronicles : The Lost Journals of the Great Wizard,
Septimus Agorius.
J SAN
This careful reproduction of the illustrated "diary" kept by
the Great Wizard, Septimus Agorius, details his incredible
attempts to hunt down and slay four malevolent dragons
in accordance with the wishes of his dying king.
Dugald Steer
The Dragon’s Eye (Dragonology Chronicles Series) J STE
Something that I still could hardly make out was flying
round and round the room, I could see wings, scales, and a
wisp of smoke rising from its nostrils. I saw it fly over to
the other side of the room, positioning itself opposite me.
With wings outspread and claws at the ready, it fixed me
with its beady eyes and began to fly straight at me.
Sarah A. Thomson
Dragon’s Egg
J THO
Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon keeper, learns that
the legends of old are true when she is entrusted with
carrying a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching Grounds, a
dangerous journey on which she is assisted by a knight's
squire.
Carole Wilkinson
Dragon Keeper (Dragonkeeper Series)
J WIL
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she
heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go
on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy.
Patricia Wrede
Dealing with Dragons
(Enchanted Forest Chronicles Series)
J 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.
Laurence Yep
City of Fire (Series)
J YEP
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they
enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to
stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the
universe.
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY
Rhoda Blumberg
The Truth about Dragons
j 398.3 BLU
Discusses the physical appearance, size, habitat, diet, mating,
habits, and enemies of western and eastern dragons and
cures and charms concerning them.
Peter Dickinson
The Flight of Dragons
j 398.4 DIC
Dragons aren't real ... or are they? This carefully constructed
and beautifully illustrated case for the existence of dragons
will convince even the skeptics.
Gail Gibbons
Behold—the Dragons!
J 398.4 GIB
Explains how myths about dragons developed, different types
of dragons, what draconologists do, and how different
cultures portray dragons.
Roger Lancelyn Green (Compiler)
A Cavalcade of Dragons
j 398.4 GRE
An anthology containing thirty-nine tales of dragon lore
derived from ancient and modern sources.
Michael Hague(Editor)
Book of Dragons
j 398.2 BOO
A collection of short stories featuring dragons, by such
authors as Italo Calvino, Kenneth Grahame, and Elizabeth
Coatsworth.
Margaret Hodges
Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend
j 398.2 HOD
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.
Helen Hoke
Dragons, Dragons, Dragons
j 398.4 HOK
A collection of tales from Europe and Asia about dragons.
David Passes
Dragons: Truth, Myth and Legend
j 398.4 PAS
Presents various myths and legends about dragons and
discusses dragon lore from around the world.
Ellen Schecter
Sim Chung and the River Dragon: A Folktale from
Korea
j 398.2 SCH
In order to obtain a cure for her father's blindness, a loving
young girl agrees to marry a terrifying dragon.
Birdie Stallman
Learning about Dragons
j 398.4 STA
Briefly presents dragon lore from many countries, as well as
other facts and fiction about this "make-believe monster."
Dugald Steer
Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology Handbook : A Practical Course in
Dragons
j 398.469 STE
Twenty-one lessons to make you an expert in dragonology.
Lisa Trutkoff Turnbauer
A Practical Guide to Dragons/Inscribed by
Sindri Suncatcher
j 398.2 TUR
This lavishly illustrated guide showcases the wide array of
fantastic dragons encountered on the world of Krynn. Sindri
Suncatcher-wizard's apprentice-opens up his personal
notebooks to share his knowledge of these awe-inspiring
creatures, from the life cycle of a kind copper dragon to the
best way to counteract a red dragon's fiery breath.
DRAGON
TALES
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YOUNGER READERS
Jim Averbeck
Oh no, Little Dragon!
E AVE
Little Dragon tears through his day (and the house). But
even when he gets a little too rambunctious, there’s no
OH NO! that Mama’s kiss can’t fix.
Kate Banks
Max’s Dragon
E BAN
Many unusual and unexpected things happen while Max
plays with his invisible dragon.
Susan Cooper
Matthew’s Dragon
E COO
The dragon in Matthew's picture book comes to life and
takes him for an amazing nocturnal ride.
Robyn Eversole
East Dragon, West Dragon
E EVE
East Dragon and West Dragon live on opposite sides of
the world. When meddlesome knights start a riff between their two kingdoms, East Dragon and West
Dragon might the two dragons finally discover they
aren’t so different after all.
Justine Fontes
To Fly with Dragons
E FON
After moving to a new house, Max and Emmy discover a
secret drawer containing a dragon scale that magically
transports them to Dragon Land.
Margaret Hillert
I Need You, Dear Dragon (Series)
E-1 HIL
Dear dragon feels somewhat rejected when his master's
new baby sister comes home from the hospital, but love
and reassurance put things right.
Stephen Krensky
Spark the Firefighter
E KRE
Spark's fear of fire has kept him from being a proper
dragon, so he takes a job with the Hardscrabble volunteer fire department in hopes of conquering his fear.
Else Holmelund Minarik
The Little Girl and the Dragon
E MIN
A dragon escapes from a storybook and proceeds to
swallow up all of a little girl's toys.
Mary Morgan-Vanroyen
Dragon Pizzeria
E MOR
Two dragons, BeBop and Spike, open a pizzeria in Fairy
Tale Land and deliver unique pizzas to various fairytale
characters.
Cristoph Niemann
The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Frienship and
Chinese Characters
E NIE
When Lin's beloved pet dragon disappears, she searches
for him far and wide until a witch helps her to reach the
dragon's new home. Introduces a different Chinese
character on each step of Lin's adventure.
Jerdine Nolen
Raising Dragons
E NOL
A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures
with the dragon that she raises from infancy.
Carole Lexa Schaefer
Dragon Dancing
E SCH
A group of children pretend that they are a dragon to
celebrate their classmate's birthday.
Shelley Moore Thomas
A Cold Winter’s Good Night
E THO
When three little dragons come to the castle on the night of
a fancy ball, the Good Knight must remind them to mind
their manners.
Audrey Wood
The Flying Dragon Room
E WOO
With the help of Mrs. Jenkins' magic tools, Patrick builds a
fabulous place of his very own.
The Princess and the Dragon
E WOO
When a princess who behaves like a dragon meets a dragon
who wants to be a princess, the unexpected happens.
Peter Yarrow
Puff, the Magic Dragon (with Muisc CD)
E YAR
The adventures of a boy and his dragon friend are recounted
in this classic song from the 1960s.
CHAPTER BOOKS
Tony Abbott
Moon Magic (Secrets of Droon Series)
J3-4 ABB
Salamandra has sent Eric, Julie, Neal and Keeah through her
Portal of Ages. The kids are on a quest to the past and the
future to save Droon. Unfortunately, Gethwing, the infamous Moon Dragon, has disappeared into the Portal, as well.
Debbie Dadey
Dragons Don’t Cook Pizza
J3-4 DAD
The Bailey School kids believe that the new pizza place, with
its medieval theme and a man dressed as a knight, has a firebreathing dragon as its cook.
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Three Tales of my Father’s Dragon
J3-4 GAN
A compilation of 3 tales which relate the fantastic adventures
of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.
Kenneth Grahame
The Reluctant Dragon
J GRA
The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a
kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened
villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that
there is no cause for concern?
Angela McAllister
Digory and the Lost King
J3-4 MCA
After having inadvertently acquired the reputation of being a
brave young knight, Digory, now also a prince living in the
castle, goes in search of the missing King Widget and finds
his life complicated even further when he is mistaken for a
wizard.
Kate McMullan
The New Kid at School
(Dragon Slayers’ Academy Series)
J3-4 MCM
Wiglaf is off to Dragon Slayers' Academy and in for a first
day of school he will never forget.
Mary Pope Osborne
Dragon of the Red Dawn
J3-4 OSB
When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie
travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of
happiness.
OLDER READERS
Joseph Bruchac
Dragon Castle
J BRU
When Rashko's parents mysteriously disappear and the
evil Baron Temny parks his army outside the castle walls,
it is up to the young prince to save the day. Rashko will
have to embrace his ancestry, harness a dragon, and use
his sword-fighting skills to stop the baron and save the
kingdom.
Janet Lee Carey
Dragon’s Keep
J CAR
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin,14-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.
Cinda Williams Chima
The Wizard Heir
J CHI
16-year-old Seph, a powerful wizard, gets caught up in a
conflict between the Wizard Council, smaller groups with
their own agendas, and a rogue politician--the Dragon-whose identity and whereabouts the others seek to know.
Cressida Cowell
How to Train your Dragon : The Heroic Misadventures of
Hiccup the Viking (Series)
J COW
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup
Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the
important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the
Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
Chris D’Lacey
Fire Within (David Rain Series)
J DLA
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.
Silvana De Mari
The Last Dragon
J 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.
Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider
J 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.
Alison Goodman
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
J 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.
Michelle Knudsen
The Dragon of Trelian
J KNU
A mage's apprentice, a princess, and a dragon combine
their strength and magic to bring down a traitor and restore peace to the kingdom of Trelian.