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It has to be real, and bad, in order for the efforts of the Dragonets to be meaningful, and it succeeds with vengeance in this regard! What I appreciate most is that although there is plenty of action and adventure, character is front and center. There is violence, and some gruesome deaths and maimings, but it is not gratuitous (parental discretion is advised, though, if you have a younger child who isn't ready for very vividly awful dragon deaths).
#Secret of the wings book series#
This is a GREAT series to offer your handy nine or ten year old-it is immensely popular in my son's reading circle, which includes both boys and girls. And they want Starflight to help them, by betraying his friends, including Glory, his fellow Dragonet of Destiny and the new Rainwing queen. Instead, the Nightwings are savagely plotting to conquer the land of the Rainwing dragons, to make a new home for themselves there. But it's not the place of happy learning he'd hoped it would be. As the book begins, he's been taken by the Nightwings to their island home. Starflight hasn't yet manifested any powers, and all his life he's hungered for knowledge, and worried that he's not brave enough to help his friends bring the prophesied peace to fruition. Starflight is a Nightwing-mysterious dragons with strange powers and suspicious secrets. Each book is told from the point of view of one of the dragonets, and now, in the fourth book, The Dark Secret (Scholastic 2013), it's Starflight's turn.
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The Wings of Fire series tells of five young dragonets, taken from their various clans of dragon kind while they were still unhatched, and raised to believe that they were the Dragonets of Destiny, who would bring piece to the war torn world.