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Searching for Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 249 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA fantasy novel. Princess Cimorene, assistant to the dragon king, and Mendebar, the young king of the Enchanted forest, team up to foil the latest plots of the Society of Wizards. Book two of the Enchanted Forest series.

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeMiddle Grade
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine · 248 pages

A kingdom beset by monsters, a disease that weakens and destroys, an epic poem and a hero of long ago, a story of danger and desperation. The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each o

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeMiddle Grade
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Blue Moon Rising

Simon R. Green · 476 pages

Princes and PrincessesDragonsQuest NarrativeFantasy
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Wednesdays in the Tower

Jessica Day George

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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Dragon's Breath

E.D. Baker · 292 pages

Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The neighboring kingdom has chosen this moment to attack, and if Emma can't get Grassina's mind back on protecting the kingdo

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

Princes and PrincessesDragonsQuest NarrativeFantasy
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The Princess of Trelian

Michelle Knudsen

Princess Meglynne of Trelian will soon be named the princess-heir, next in line to be queen, but her link to the dragon Jakl makes the kingdom's people more than a little uneasy, while a mysterious magical attack and some ominous divinations reveal that a much more powerful enemy may soon reappear and endanger them all.

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C.S. Lewis · 223 pages

Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin travel back to Narnia through a painting where they board a ship named "The Dawn Treader." They find King Caspian and a mouse on the ship and they find mystical creatures and go on a mission that will decide Narnia's fate!

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeMiddle Grade
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The Lost Heir

Tui T. Sutherland · 336 pages

Tsunami the SeaWing is overjoyed to be reunited with her fellow ocean-dwelling dragons. For the first time in her life, she actually fits in. But not everything is as perfect as it seems underwater. Tsunami and the other 'dragonets of destiny' aren't any closer to ending the war for Pyrrhia. And someone in the SeaWing kingdom wants them dead before they can even try.

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Eye of Zoltar

Jasper Fforde

DragonsQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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Twice Upon a Time

James Riley · 340 pages

Jack, of the village of Giant's Hand, is now accompanied by a prince as he continues trying to help a reluctant princess find her family, while also attempting to save a city full of fairies from a nameless curse.

Princes and PrincessesQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 3

Mizuho Kusanagi · 192 pages

On her 16th birthday, tragedy strikes Princess Yona's family. With Hak, she sets out to find a priest who can see the future.

Princes and PrincessesQuest NarrativeDragonsFantasy
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Dragon of the Lost Sea

Laurence Yep · 213 pages

An American Library Association's Notable Children's Books of 1982, this story weaves a fantasy quest with elements of Chinese mythology. Princess Shimmer is a dragon without a home after Civet, a sorceress, imprisoned Shimmer's sea home in a jewel. Shimmer is on a quest to get it back and to restore her home to its former glory. While tracking Civet, Shimmer meets up with Thorn, a young boy,

DragonsQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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Queste

Angie Sage · 608 pages

There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined to send Septimus on a deadly Queste. But Septimus and Jenna have other plans—they are headed for the mysterious House of Foryx, a place where all Time

Quest NarrativeMiddle GradePrinces and PrincessesDragons
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Wren to the Rescue

Sherwood Smith · 216 pages

With the help of a prince and an apprentice wizard, Wren strives to rescue her best friend, a princess named Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king.

Princes and PrincessesQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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A Destiny of Dragons

T.J. Klune · 400 pages

Once upon a time, the wizard’s apprentice, Sam of Wilds, got his happily ever after in the arms of his cornerstone, Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart. A year has passed, and while Sam’s been captured five or six more times since then, things are pretty great. His parents are happy, Gary and Tiggy still eat sass for breakfast, Randall is somehow alive despite being older than the gods, the King rules

DragonsQuest NarrativePrinces and PrincessesFantasy
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The Second Mango

Shira Glassman · 180 pages

Queen Shulamit never expected to inherit the throne of the tropical land of Perach so young. At twenty, grief-stricken and fatherless, she's also coping with being the only lesbian she knows after her sweetheart ran off for an unknown reason. Not to mention, she's the victim of severe digestive problems that everybody thinks she's faking. When she meets Rivka, an athletic and assertive warrior fro

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeFantasy
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The Dragon Prophecy

Geronimo Stilton

Princess Sterling sends the Dragon of the Rainbow and Scribblehopper to bring Geronimo Stilton back the the Kingdom of Fantasy, because he is the hero in the dragon prophecy who will find the stolen dragon egg and restore harmony to the kingdom.

DragonsQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley · 246 pages

Although she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin was never fully accepted as royalty. People would whisper the story of her mother, the witch-woman, who they said charmed the king into marrying her, and Aerin turned into an awkward young woman, persecuted by many in the court. But none knew her hidden strength and courage until she became the hero her kingdom desperately needed.

DragonsPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeFantasy
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Handbook for Dragon Slayers

Merrie Haskell

Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.

Princes and PrincessesDragonsMiddle GradeFantasy
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Spelled

Betsy Schow · 344 pages

As the crown princess of Emerald, Dorthea lives a charmed life full of Hans Christian Louboutin glass slippers and Glenda Original ball gowns. But when she unknowingly wishes upon a cursed star, all spell breaks loose and the rules of fairy tale disappear--taking Dorthea's parents with them.

Princes and PrincessesQuest NarrativeFantasyMiddle Grade
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Frostborn

Lou Anders · 320 pages

Destined to take over his family farm in Norrøngard, Karn would rather play the board game, Thrones and Bones, until half-human, half frost giantess Thianna appears and they set out on an adventure, chased by a dragon, undead warriors, an evil uncle, and more. Karn, who would rather be playing the board game Thrones and Bones, and Thianna, half-frost giant, half-human, team up when they are chase

Quest NarrativeDragonsMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Dragon of Doom

Bruce Coville · 69 pages

Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.

DragonsQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy

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