How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
How to Train Your Dragon Series
Author: Cressida Cowell
Book 10 in the How to Train Your Dragon series
Pages: 384
Published: 2012
Age: 8+
The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has EIGHT of the King's Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest... But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope? And if he does, what will he do with it?
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.