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Dragonhaven
Written by Robin McKinley
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Average Score:
60(5)
Jake lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. There are five million acres of the Smokehill wilderness, and the endangered dragons rarely show themselves. Jake’s never seen one except at a distance. But then, on his first overnight solo in the park, he meets a dragon—and she is dying. More than that, she has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive. . . .
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Book Details
Young Adult
Fantasy
Paperback,
368 Pages
Published
by Firebird on October 29, 2009
First Published by Putnam Juvenile in 2007
ISBN-10 0142414948
ISBN-13 978-0142414941
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Reviews
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SF Site
| Sherwood Smith
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Review Rating: 80
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The story, when it does take center stage, is powerful, absorbing, and exquisitely rendered. McKinley makes those dragons real.
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Boomtron
| Roxy
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Review Rating: 60
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This may not be my favorite dragon story but I feel the book will appeal to readers, especially to young readers.
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Graemes Fantasy Book Review
| Graeme Flory
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Review Rating: 60
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The end result is a sometimes stilted read where I would sometimes find myself skipping the odd paragraph in a quest to get to the point.
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SFRevu
| Harriet Klausner
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Review Rating: 60
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Different in tone than most books that soar with dragons, Robin McKinley writes an enchanting urban fantasy adults and teens will enjoy.
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Strange Horizons
| Hannah Strom-Martin
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Review Rating: 40
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it is neither the occasionally shaky science or expected dragon clichés that bog down the story. It is Jake's narration. For when his voice fails to ring true, it fails spectacularly, rendering some passages, at best, confusing and, at worst, floundering in speech tics only Joss Whedon could get away with.
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