Books with title The Dragon's Lair

N. D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns with an action-packed adventure that will captivate fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones with lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure.For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room.Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia.From the Hardcover edition.

This perennial favourite is now available with a beautifully redesigned cover!On Ai Lien's birthday, her father gives her a stone from China. "It feels special," he tells her with a twinkle in his eye. "Perhaps it is a dragon's egg!"The stone is pretty, and Ai Lien places it on her dresser. She can hardly believe what happens next. In the middle of the night, the stone cracks and opens . . . and a baby dragon is born. He's not just any dragon, either. He's the son of the Dragon King of the Yangtze River - and he's magic.Soon, what's seemed like the worst year of Ai Lien's life becomes a time of adventure and wonder!

Life is not easy for twelve-year-old Erec Rex. His single mother can barely support her six adopted kids. And they've moved into an apartment so tiny that Erec sleeps with the washing machine. Worse, there is a strange force within Erec that is making him do odd things. His urge to obey these thoughts grows -- until it becomes impossible to resist them. Then one morning, Erec's mother is missing. The force inside Erec commands him to find her, leading him on an adventure that will change him forever. When he arrives in Alypium, a hidden world where old knowledge of magic is kept, Erec learns that his mother and the entire kingdom are in peril. And he might be the only one who can save them.

Alexandria Bennett is your typical, everyday outcast. Well, except for the part where she believes, wholeheartedly, in the existence of dragons. Hence the nickname, "Dragon Lady". Her life has been nothing but turmoil since the 7th grade, her classmates constantly taunting her at every turn because of her beliefs. By the time she's fifteen, she’s sure it can’t get any worse. Until a school bully backs her into a dangerous situation that gets her kicked out of school.With her mom unable to transfer from her job for another year, Alex leaves New York for Virginia to live with her estranged father and attend school in Richmond. Though the relationship between them is strained from the start, Alex finds hope in a chance to change her image at a new school, where no one knows her as the "Dragon Lady". That is, until she meets the other new kid in town and sees a carbon copy of her old self in him. Her morals and priorities at a stand-off, Alex must decide whether or not being accepted is worth the price of losing herself and the only true friend she may ever find.

Sam and Angela visit the Magic Lands, but instead of a simple tour of a world of enchantment, they plunge into a tangle of intrigue, betrayal and secrets. Will their visit spark an all-out war? With Arnold and others, they set out on a quest to uncover the truth and save the Magic Lands from the shadows. For ages 8 - 12.Find the author's books, games and more at:www.mentalwidgets.com

A fantasy adventure novel aimed at the young teens or pre-teens but with chapters short enough to be read to younger children as a bed-time story. It is 1956 and in the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Wernley twelve year old Tommy is trying to come to terms with his father’s recent death. He finds his way through a terrifying forest to a parallel, magical world populated by talking animals and mythical creatures including a dragon. His adventures there help him to work through his anger, grief and frustration and find hope for the future.

After the king's daughter is kidnapped by a dragon, a huge reward is offered in gold. Every knight in the kingdom attempts to save the princess and claim the reward, but is defeated in the attempt. Enter a poor peasant boy, who not only saves the princess, but shuns the huge reward for a single gold coin and the horn of the fallen dragon. The townspeople laugh and ridicule the young man for not taking the reward. Read how a determined boy teaches a kingdom that patience and persistance pay.