A good story for 3rd & 4th graders, in my opinion. It has more to the story than The Magic Treehouse books, but is not as difficult and loooong as Harry Potter.The main characters are cousins, who have a fun relationship, even though they are a boy and a girl. They are on an awesome adventure.T...
A boy finds a geode that talks to him... turns out it's a dragon egg! Once the egg hatches, he and his cousin must protect the dragon from a mysterious man who wants the dragon for himself. My son has long told me that this is a very good book. Personally, it left me somewhat cold. I can't de...
(Genre:Children's Fiction/Fantasy) The sequel to "The Dragon in the Sock Drawer", this one was not quite as good as the first (for an adult....my 10 year old hasn't read it yet and given me his opinion. He will probably like it just fine). There was one particular action sequence that just didn't...
“Look out, she’s a Red Eyes!” Jesse cried, grabbing Daisy and swimming away from Coral. “Yeah, right,” said Coral. She winked at them and gave her seashell necklace a little tug. “Hey, dudes! What took you so long? I’ve been knocking on that hatch forever. I thought you’d never come. Star sent me...
“I don’t suppose you two happened to hear the phone ringing at six o’clock this morning?” Uncle Joe asked. Daisy and Jesse looked at each other blankly and shook their heads. “I guess we slept through it,” said Daisy. “Well, it was your buddy, St. George—” “He is not our buddy,” Daisy said. “We h...
He clapped his hands. “Come along, puppies. Come with me! You’re going outside!” We scrambled after him, tripping over our big paws. We were big now, two months old. I came up almost to Mother’s knee. Have fun, children! Mother called after us. I think she was secretly happy to be rid of us. By t...
Daisy caught a brief glimpse of their pursuers over her shoulder. With their long fangs and their bulbous eyes, their humped backs and their gangling limbs, they looked like giant, hairy spiders. The snowy terrain was full of surprises. There were rolling hills and icy ramps leading to sharp drop...
One look at Malora’s face and Brion knows something is amiss. “What is it, Daughter?” he asks, setting down his leather satchel. “I can’t work today,” she tells him. “I have to go away. I started the fire for you. You’ll have to bring in a striker to take my place. One of the Twani—” “Where are y...
And when it hatched, they became Emmy’s Keepers. Read Dragon Keepers Book 5: The Dragon in the Sea to discover what happens to Leandra’s second egg! Excerpt copyright © 2012 by Kate Klimo. Published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Jesse waited until D...
"Because I was the castle's architect. The king of Uffington held a contest, and naturally," he said with a modest shrug, "my plan won." Daisy whipped out the wildflower notebook, pulled the pencil out of her bun, and began copying the floor plans onto a fresh page. While Daisy did that, Jesse sp...