Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Copyright Date: 2023

Edition Date: 2023 Release Date: 03/07/23

Pages: 263 pages

ISBN: 1-338-71669-7

ISBN 13: 978-1-338-71669-6

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 22 cm.

Subject Heading:
Dragons. Juvenile fiction.
Sheriffs. Juvenile fiction.
Families. Juvenile fiction.
Dragons. Fiction.
Sheriffs. Fiction.
Families. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 66,667

Reading Level: 5.5

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.5 / points: 10.0 / quiz: 519239 / grade: Middle Grades

In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart.

Banished from Drakopolis to the desolate frontier town of Glassblower's Gulch, Abel and his family must face a harsh new reality: life without dragons.

Far from the lights and lizards of the megacity, Abel's new home effectively bans the great beasts. Anyone caught smuggling dragons is hauled away by the ruthless sheriff and her fearsome deputies. They have the only dragons in town, and they run the dreaded dragon rodeo, which pits those who fall afoul of the sheriff's "justice" against a wild dragon in a competition for their freedom. It's dragon versus human and only one can win.

Cut off from his friends and desperate to keep his fractious family together, Abel is determined not to break a single rule, even though the sheriff has it out for him. He's going to be a model citizen.

Then he discovers the baby wyvern.

It's a tiny, defenseless thing-and it definitely won't survive without his help. Abel has made it his mission to aid any dragon that needs him. But what is he willing to risk for a baby wyvern in a town without mercy?