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Year of the Dragon! (Middle Grade Edition)

To celebrate that 2024 is the year of the dragon, we have a fun selection of fiction featuring dragons for the middle grade readers!

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  • 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.
    Book, 1990San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1990] — J WREDE
  • In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling.
    Book, 2018New York : Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018. — J ELLIOTT
  • An ancient prophecy places a boy-turned-dragon, his reluctant dragon rider, a runaway witch, and a young soldier, on a collision course with destiny--and with each other--while on their mission to heal the fractured realm once known as Haven.
    Book, 2023New York : Labyrinth Road, [2023] — J REYES
  • Grisha is a dragon in a world that’s forgotten how to see him. Maggie is an unusual child who thinks she’s perfectly ordinary. They’re an unlikely duo—but magic, like friendship, is funny. And it has chosen Grisha and Maggie to solve the darkest…
    Book, 2018San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2018] — J WEYR
  • 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.
    Book, 2009Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009. — J KNUDSEN
  • Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.
    Book, 2011New York : HarperCollins, [2011] — J LEVINE
  • Running out of time to make his grandfather smile once again before it's too late, Kohei searches for a ry?--a dragon of legend.
    Book, 2022Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2022] — J COHEN
  • Twelve-year-old Lily discovers a stone pendant and is transported to a realm where people's dreams come to life.
    Book, 2022Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, [2022] — J BUTLER
  • Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but they are not prepared when the "thunder egg" Jesse has found turns out to be a dragon egg that is about to hatch.
    Book, 2008New York : Random House, [2008] — J KLIMO
  • In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
    Book, 2020New York, New York : Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] — J PASTERN
  • Five years after dragons decimated the world, a chance encounter with a young dragon leaves twelve-year-old Noah questioning everything he thought he knew.
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — J MANCUSI
  • Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
    Book, 2007New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007. — J GEORGE
  • Silver Batal, a young desert-dweller, dreams of becoming a water dragon racer, and when she befriends a rare dragon that can swim and fly, she may just get her chance.
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — J HALBROO
  • Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
    Book, 2002San Diego : Harcourt, 2002. — J COVILLE
  • Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among…
    Book, 2015New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2015] — J YEP
  • A sea-faring girl and her friends take on pirates and grown-ups and bond with dragons as they work to make the world a better place.
    Book, 2023New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023. — J MARR
  • Reluctant reader Kit discovers her wizarding powers and the magic she can wield through books to help save the local library, and its resident dragon, from a power-hungry tycoon.
    Book, 2021Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2021. — J STOWELL
  • When three twelve-year-olds discover there are seven separate minutes a day they can do magic, they must use oddly specific spells to save a dragon, themselves, and the world.
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — J CLARK
  • When her beloved dragon Laddy runs away from the castle, Princess Meg and some of her friends embark on a quest to find him and bring him home.
    Book, 2009New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009. — J COOMBS
  • The Dragon Prince

    a Chinese Beauty & the Beast Tale

    Yep, Laurence, 1948-
    A poor farmer's youngest daughter agrees to marry a fierce dragon in order to save her father's life.
    Book, 1997New York : HarperCollins, ©1997. — J 398.2095 YEP

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