Talking to Dragons
10 best books like Talking to Dragons (Patricia C. Wrede): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dragon's Bait, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 1, A Glory of Unicorns, Shatterglass, A Sending of Dragons, High Wizardry, The Arkadians, Flight of the Dragon Kyn
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 0545010225 |
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152166637 |
Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter--the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon.
It's late, it's cold, and it's raining, and Alys can think of only one thing--revenge. But first she's got to escape, and even if she does,...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0395912113 |
Squire Terence and Sir Gawain are off questing again, but this time their journey is overshadowed by their ultimate destination: Gawain is to meet up with the Green Knight in a contest that could easily lead to Gawain's death. Along the way the two have a slew of hair-raising adventures and encounter...
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In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher...
Award-winning author Bruce Coville believes in unicorns, and his mission is to make believers out of all of us with this collection of stories by distinguished fantasy writers.
The guardian of memory / Bruce Coville
Tearing down the unicorns / Janni Lee Simner
Beyond the fringe...
Kethlun Warder was a gifted glassmaker until his world was shattered in a freak accident. Now his remaining glass magic is mixed with lightning, and Tris must teach him to control it (if she can teach him to control his temper first). But there's more at stake than Keth's education. With his strange magic,...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152051287 |
Disappointing. The plot felt rushed and choppy, never seemed to find a rhythm or establish what direction the story was trying to take, and left any number of loose threads dangling. For instance, the possibility of the (view spoiler)[ Cave-men, armed with their metal, (hide spoiler)].
There is so much science fiction in High Wizardry, the third book in Diane Duane's wonderful Young Wizards series, that it barely counts as fantasy. Which is entirely awesome; this is the Diane Duane whose name I saw with pleasure and anticipation on those Star Trek novels of my youth, except even more...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0140380736 |
Lloyd Alexander is best known for his outstanding Chronicles of Prydain fantasy series. And deservedly so; it's a great series, charming, unique, and with a powerful and moving sense of morality to it. It is, in many ways, a Lord of the Rings for the young-teen set.
For those who aren't familiar...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689815158 |
This book depressed the hell out of me as a kid. I couldn't really enjoy it because I couldn't like the main character, Kara.
She's hired by a cruel king to use her ability to mentally summon birds in order to summon a dragon so he can kill it. I can't remember whether he forcibly summoned her, but...
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0142401625 |
When the evil Andreus's hunger for power leads to war, Wren and her friends are thrust into the middle of the struggle. Teressa is heir to the throne, Tyron her chief magicmaker, and Prince Connor a reluctant warrior. As allies die and others disappear, they must put aside their feelings for one another...
| Author | Ann Downer-Hazell |
| ISBN | 0689855710 |
Ever since she was caught up in a magical whirlwind of dragons, spells, and wizards, Theodora Oglethorpe has been doing her best to put the Events of Last Summer behind her and go back to her life as a normal twelve-year-old girl. But no matter how hard she tries to forget about magic, it always seems to find...
