Young Reader Dragon

In this exciting How to Train Your Dragon spin-off series perfect for developing listeners and easy-to-listen stories, follow Hiccup and his fellow Warriors-in-Training in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures.

Jin is a Stone Lion—one of the guardians of the Old City Gate who is charged to watch over humans and protect the Sacred Sphere. But to Jin, those boring duties feel like a waste of time. What isn’t a waste of time? Perfecting his zuqiu kick, scoring a Golden Goal, and becoming the most legendary player of all the spirit world.

The I Escaped Series: The World's Favorite Escapes Three friends battle stormy weather and a hungry Komodo dragon when they're trapped overnight atop a barren rock. From bestselling authors Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters comes a gripping tale of survival for young readers. On a stormy night in Indonesia, American teenagers Jake and Tay and their local dive guide find themselves in a harrowing predicament. High on a rock in the ocean, they huddle together as the wind howls and the rain pours down. Below them, lurking in the water, a hungry Komodo dragon waits for an opportunity. Jake and ...

Saint George and the Dragon dramatically retells the epic episode from Edmund 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 joy to the land.

Even and Odd are sisters who share magic. Lately, though, it seems like that’s the only thing they have in common. Odd doesn’t like magic, and Even practices it every chance she gets, dreaming of the day she’ll be ready to be a hero. When the hidden border between the mundane world the sisters live in and the magical land they were born in shuts abruptly, the girls are trapped, unable to return home. With the help of a unicorn named Jeremy, they discover a wizard is diverting magic from the border to bolster her own power.

Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors. When she’s forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon.

Bruce Cargo, a scientist at the British Geological Survey, is stunned when he discovers a journal purportedly written by Charles Darwin. But is the fantastical story it contains real, or is the journal just a hoax? Bruce and his girlfriend Luna set out to determine the journal's authenticity, but as soon as they begin, someone-or some thing-kills the Darwin expert they have just consulted and ransacks Luna's apartment. A witness claims a "flying monster" was responsible, but the police are incredulous. Meanwhile, Lily (Barnum's Angel) in flashbacks to 1882, searches for a series of journals...

A temple awakened. The forbidden mountain stirs. The dead are missing. Snatched from her home by a Primordial Seeker, seventeen-year-old Avery is imprisoned by the people she intended to serve. In a desperate bid for freedom, she escapes, only to find herself racing against time to save those who seek to use her. Driven by jealousy, the lust for power and the stain of ancient crimes, conflicting factions struggle to gain control of the magic of a Spirit Shield. Avery must dodge all who cross her path, for each group vies to control her actions. Aided by the mythical creatures of her native ...

The worst blight in five hundred years has been defeated But that was only the beginning... Now, after banishing a necromantic scourge, young master Roscoe Coats and his gang of magites and hunters must face a new threat. The Ordal - the lifestream of the world's mana - is changing. Perverted and twisted, a new energy pervades. As magites everywhere find their powers waning, the Light increases. They are drawn - man and creature alike - to a distant fire in the sky. Building ever quickly, mutating every day, digesting the clouds themselves. No living being can resist. Except they must. ...

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn't be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it's kill or be killed where dragons are concerned. Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond with him. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong.

As a young girl cautiously approaches a castle full of soaring, roaring dragons, she worries about their wildness and their terribly sharp teeth. And indeed, the dragons are hungry and noisy, and they seem to be hovering closer and closer...until the girl notices that some of the beasts are wearing mismatched socks. And some are playing tambourines. And some prefer to color quietly in the corner. Could there be more to these dragons than the girl first realized?

The Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. On that day, people would eat zongzi and run dragon boat races in commemoration of a patriotic poet….

"The Reluctant Dragon" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days. It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat.

Alison, as a child, always shared a passionate connection to the supernatural, so years later, as an adult, she became a paranormal writer. One day when Alison goes out to meet with her editor to discuss her latest book, something mysterious happens: a dark and obscure figure steps out from the shadows. Alison, shocked, cannot perceive this figure standing before her. Why does this stranger resemble Teegan, the werewolf shifter she wrote about in one of her books? When she discovers that her latest novel is opening up a portal for all shapeshifters to wage war on one another, the race to ...

Looking for a calming and delightful bedtime story for kids to get the little ones to sleep? Worries about monsters in the dark? Squabbles at bedtime? Freya and Pixie’s bedtime stories are ideal, especially if you have young children who are siblings, munchkins who are afraid of the dark or struggling with any lingering worries about monsters under the bed.