"When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit dwelling in peaceful Hobbiton. Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. But as they journey from the wonders of Rivendell to the terrors of Mirkwood and beyond, Bilbo will find...

With the aid of King Mandanbar, Princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked wizards.

In this illustrated, abridged version of the original, the boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?

Eli is a young stowaway on a ship bound for North America. A strange birthmark on his arm, in the shape of a dragon, begins to sting. Then he meets a sailor on the ship with a dragon tattoo. The tattoo, and a weird cargo hidden on the ship, hold the secret to Eli's real identity.

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....

Erik has nightmares about dragons, and he is shocked when he looks in the mirror and sees a dragon face--but when a girl named Violet asks him to help find her brother he learns the secret of the dragon birthmark.

"Noor and Farah, searching for food, find themselves in a crumbling library. But when Noor shouts, the sound is heard by three soldiers who patrol the old building. The soldiers are angry and the two girls are scared. That all changes when Noor opens her mouth"--P. [4] of cover.

"Carlos works on a fishing boat in the middle of the sea. After a storm, he spots a woman clinging to driftwood. The woman's friends are lost, maybe swallowed by the ocean. But the woman says it was no storm that capsized her ship, it was a monster!"--P. [4] of cover.

"A sixteen-year-old cowboy is working at a ranch for the summer. His father said it would be good for him. One night, the horses begin to snort in fear--and a strange teenage boy appears where a fire-breathing shadow once stood. The cowboy is afraid, until he sees that the stranger's birthmark is dragon-shaped--just like his"--P. [4] of cover.

In Tokyo, Ren has met with three other teenagers who have the dragon birthmark, but the public has learned that the dragonborn exist and teams of hunters are searching for them--and not all of Ren's new friends are what they seem to be.