How to Break a Dragon's Heart
How to Train Your Dragon Series
Author: Cressida Cowell
Book 8 in the How to Train Your Dragon series
Pages: 320
Published: 2009
Age: 8+
When Fishlegs is caught sending illegal love poems to the daughter of Ug the Uglythug, Hiccup and Fishlegs must complete the Impossible Task or else face death at the hands of the Berserks. Meanwhile, deep in the Berserk forest, there lies a prisoner holding a dark secret that reveals the truth about the Lost Throne of the Archipelago, as well as some shocking truths about Hiccup's past. Hiccup must battle Berserks, outwit Alvin the Treacherous (again), and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast. What's a Hero to do...?
About the How to Train Your Dragon Series
Books in series order
- 1.How to Train Your Dragon(2003)
- 2.How to Be a Pirate(2004)
- 3.How to Speak Dragonese(2005)
- 4.How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse(2006)
- 5.How to Twist a Dragon's Tale(2007)
- 6.A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons(2008)
- 7.How to Ride a Dragon's Storm(2008)
- 8.How to Break a Dragon's Heart(2009)
- 9.How to Steal a Dragon's Sword(2011)
- 10.How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel(2012)
- 11.How to Betray a Dragon's Hero(2014)
- 12.How to Fight a Dragon's Fury(2015)
- +The Day of the Dreader(2012)
- +The Incomplete Book of Dragons(2014)
Reading age: 7+ years
I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
Hiccup tackles the chore of training the stubborn creature, which leads to some fresh, funny dialogue between the two (Hiccup has the rare ability to speak "Dragonese"). Short chapters, clever slapstick, kid-pleasing character names (Fishlegs, Dogsbreath, and the Duhbrain, to name a few) and goofy, childlike drawings will keep even reluctant readers turning pages and chuckling as they go.