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Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. . . .From School Library JournalGrade 7 Up—A novel set in an alternate contemporary world. Viewing dragons as fire-breathing, non-sentient animals with gigantic appetites for livestock, humans have hunted them for centuries, and now they survive only in a few wilderness havens. Jake Mendoza has grown up at one such haven, the Smokehill National Park in the American West, and has inherited his scientist parents' commitment to the park's secret inhabitants. When he rescues an orphaned baby dragon, he sets in motion a cascade of events that may eventually save these top predators from extinction. Readers will find the book to be less about the joys of the human-dragon bond and more about the challenges of raising an infant and communicating in a vastly different language. As

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Author
Robin McKinley
Publisher
Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780142414941
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Folklore, Children'S, Science Fiction
Rating
3.77 / 5 (15,872 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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