By Kaye, Marvin (editor) 

Five tales of dragon lore by Tanith Lee, Orson Scott Card, and other equally talented fantasy authors

 

 

By Carey, Janet Lee  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.

By McCaffrey, Anne 

Classic tale of telepathic, teleporting dragons and the humans who bond with them for life. Dragonriders used to be trained to fight “Thread,” a deadly airborne organism that kills living things on contact, to keep their communities safe. But the traditions are dying out, because no Thread has fallen for hundreds of years; when it suddenly reappears, it is up to Lessa to rediscover the true abilities of dragons. Once you visit Pern, you’ll want to go back again and again.

Book 1 in the Dragonriders of Pern series.

By McKinley, Robin  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. And his life will never be the same!

By Paul, Donita K. 

After 14 years as a slave girl, Kale is free, because of a dragon's egg. Since she found it, the village elders have decided that she must present herself and the egg to the great wizards of the walled city of Vendela, where she expects to become a servant of Paladin, the earthly representative of Wulder, supreme being of Amara. Her journey is interrupted by ogres and along the way she discovers more dragon eggs. Two of her eggs hatch on the way and become her constant companions. To them, Kale is much more than just a slave girl–she is the last of the great Allerion dragon-keepers.

Sequels: Dragonquest, Dragonknight, Dragonfire

By Shusterman, Neal 

Shusterman weaves together familiar parts of fairy tales and Greek mythology (Medusa, Little Red Riding Hood and The Ugly Ducking) in this series.

Others in series: Rider’s Hood, Duckling Ugly

By Pattou, Edith  A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.

By Zevin, Gabrielle 

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."