![]() ![]() That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history. īut modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm-in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy ( The New York Times).Īerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her. ![]()
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