| Dragonhaven Contributor(s): McKinley, Robin (Author) |
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ISBN: 044101643X ISBN-13: 9780441016433 Publisher: Ace Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: In this fascinating look at a modern-day world where dragons truly exist, the Newbery Medal-winning author of "The Hero and the Crown" takes readers into a controversial nature preserve, which about 200 of the worlds few remaining dragons call home. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Animals - Mythical Creatures - Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - General - Young Adult Fiction | Boys & Men |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 3.95" W x 7.03" (0.37 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 117626 Reading Level: 6.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Think of yourself out of your comfy chair and your nice house with the roads and the streetlights outside--and the ceiling overhead low enough that a fifty-foot dragon can't stand on her hind legs and not bump her head--and think yourself into a cavern full of dragons. Go on. Try. Jake lives with his scientist father at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining Draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. There are five million acres of the Smokehill wilderness and the dragons rarely show themselves. Jack's never seen one except deep in the park and at a distance. They stay away from the Institute--and the tourists. But dragon conservation is controversial. Detractors say dragons are much too dangerous and much too expensive, and should be destroyed. Supporters say there is no record of their doing anything more threatening than eating sheep, there are only a few hundred of them left at best and they must be protected. But they are up to eighty feet long (plus tail) and breathe fire. On Jake's first overnight solo in the park, he meets a dragon--the thing that he would have said he wanted above everything else in the world. But this dragon is dying--dying next to the human she has killed. Jake knowns this news could destroy Smokehill. The dead man is clearly a poacher who attacked first, but that will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake notices something even more urgent: the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive... |