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Summary

A girl with dragon wings, a boy who breathes fire, and their eclectic group of friends battle dragon slayers and seek to protect the dragon race as they travel through this world and otherworldly realms with packed with action and sword-swinging adventure.

Quartet also available in audio book, and book 1 as a graphic novel

Stats

Genre: Tween (10-14 years) magical realism (fantasy elements in the real world) mixed with Arthurian legend.

Series length: Four books, plus two quartet sequel series (twelve books total)

​Violence: Moderate to strong fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Strong supernatural

Romance: Minimal  

Christian/spiritual element: Overt Christian content

Recommendation: Excellent for voracious readers who enjoy  fantasy, high adventure, dragons, and/or Arthurian legend

You might like this book if you liked... 
Percy Jackson ​or the legends of King Arthur.

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Opening Lines:

"Halt, foul dragon!"

Billy stared at the tall stranger, a ghostly figure draped in dark chain mail. He looked like a knight of some kind, like a toy box action figure come to life. But what was he so mad about? Could he be yelling at me?

The knight swung a sword in his right hand. Its brilliant blade flashed in the sun, and his armor jingled all over his body, echoing his swift, skillful moves. With a wave of his shield he barked a challenge. "I fear you not, fiend, nor your hellish fire! Come to battle, and we shall see whom the Creator will protect!"

Billy opened his mouth to answer, but he couldn't talk. His throat burned like a sizzling sidewalk, and acid bubbled up form his boiling stomach. With a convulsive shudder, he belched a plume of hot, steamy gases, blistering his tongue and scorching his lips. A second later a raging river of fire blasted through his gaping mouth and hurtled toward the knight. 

Raising Dragons (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 1)
by Bryan Davis

Action, adventure, inspiration as two teens meet their dragon past...

A boy learns of his dragon past; a girl has known of hers for years. They combine their faith, courage, and love to overcome an evil slayer who seeks to bring an end to dragon heritage, forever.

The kids at school call Billy "Dragon Breath" for good reason. His breath is bad! It isn't the normal morning-mouth bad; it's the hot-as-fire, "don't-you-dare-get-near-me" bad. Trouble erupts when his hot breath sets off the fire sprinklers in the boys' restroom at school, and his parents learn that they've kept their secret for too long. 

Billy finally discovers the secret. His father was once a dragon! Now that's a piece of news a guy doesn't deal with every day. Billy feels betrayed, alien, lost. When the dragon slayer traps him on a cold mountaintop in West Virginia, Billy learns to battle with weapons of steel and spirit while relying on a power he doesn't understand, a power that helps him learn to trust again. 

Bonnie, an orphan, tries to find a home, someone to love her, even though she feels like a freak because of a body feature that she calls a deformity. But this unusual feature becomes a life-saving attribute as she discovers that her love for others and her faith in a creator hold answers she's looking for. 

Raising Dragons is a contemporary fantasy novel that inspires young people to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths and use them to overcome any obstacle. it is both a hair-raising, modern-day adventure and a glimpse into another world--a world of knights, dragons, and fair maidens. 

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Opening Lines:

Out of the blackness a growling voice rumbled, "She will come." The rough words reverberated, bouncing off shrouded walls that echoed dying replies. 

A solitary man listened in the dark room, lit only by flickers of soft light coming from his hand, a dozen fireflies in a jar. They danced with hopeless wings in stale air, waiting for death to arrive, their distress signals only serving to guide the scientist as he paced the stone floor. "And what makes you so sure she'll come?" his voice replied, tiny and squeaking by comparison. "She won't trust me. Why should she?"

The rumbling voice responded. "You don't understand her; you never did. She listens to a call that rises beyond your senses....she has faith." The growl changed to a deep sigh. "But alas! What would you know about faith?"

The Candlestone (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 2)
by Bryan Davis

In The Candlestone, a mysterious book leads Billy into mortal combat with a powerful dragon slayer. Separated from his friends and finding his dragon traits useless against this enemy, he has to rely on new weapons, a sword and shield he cannot even see. 

A scientist lures Bonnie to his laboratory with amazing news--her mother is still alive! He sends her to retrieve her mother from the candlestone, that strange, paralyzing gem that absorbs light and with it, the strength of dragons and their offspring.

The Candlestone is also a prison that captures people who have been transformed into light energy by Excalibur, King Arthur's great sword. When Bonnie enters the stone, she learns that many disembodied souls have fallen prey to the gem's powers, but no one has ever escaped. Her only hope is for Billy to overcome the dragon slayer and find a way into the candlestone, and, more importantly, a way out. 

Billy and Bonnie face their greatest fears as they battle powerful enemies, ancient fiends from times long past, and the horrors of the blackest of prisons, captivity within the walls of unearthly darkness--the crystalline  tomb of the candlestone. 

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Opening Lines:

Danger!

​Billy's internal alarm blared. Something evil approached, creeping up slowly through one of the hallways of the huge English mansion. Sitting back in an easy chair, he closed his book and flicked off the floor lamp at his side. He waited, allowing his eyes to adjust to the dimness of the unfamiliar bedroom. Only a ray of moonlight seeped in from the window on the opposite wall, its yellowish white glow casting odd shadows across the oak floor. 

Circles of Seven (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 3)
by Bryan Davis

In Circles of Seven, using their dragon traits and the wisdom they gained through their earlier adventures, Billy and Bonnie explore a multi-dimensional domain of evil. In this realm, they navigate seven perilous worlds, each one manifested in a circular plane of existence that leads them deeper into the domain of a powerful enemy. 

The seventh circle holds a group of prisoners, captives of the evil mistress of the circles, and Billy has to find a way to set them free and give them new life. When tragedy strikes along the way, Billy has to face the most difficult decision of his life, whether to forsake Bonnie to rescue the prisoners or to find a way to save her, his best friend in the world.  

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Opening Lines:

Bonnie leaned against the bedrail and clutched Sir Barlow's burly hand. "I'm glad you're feeling better."

Barlow smiled, lifting his mustache. His dark eyes sparkled. "Yes, Miss. Thanks to an infusion of your blood, I am as fit as a fiddle." The knight's brow furrowed under thick strands of unkempt hair. "That is the correct idiom, isn't it?"

Bonnie tightened her grip on Barlow's hand and laughed. "That's the perfect idiom for a true gentleman!"

Tears of a Dragon (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 4)
by Bryan Davis

In this fourth installment, a vicious evil has been unleashed on the earth that only the dragons can defeat. With Billy's father, the great Clefspeare, missing, Billy and Bonnie must lead the dragons into war against the Watchers--demonic beings as old as the earth itself. Masters at the art of deception, the Watchers use the deadliest of weapons against humankind. 

A remnant of wise humans--the friends of the dragons--unite in the struggle against the Watchers. With heart-stopping action, the final battle between dragons and their enemies comes to a climax. But in order to win the war, at least one of the dragons must die. 

As the story ends, Billy and Bonnie are faced with the greatest decision of their lives. Will they keep the dragon traits that have cost them so much danger and heartache or will they turn to normal human life and end the slayers' lust for their blood forever?

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Dragons in Our Midst
Graphic Novel & Audiobooks
by Bryan Davis

The graphic novel is based on the bestselling book Raising Dragons, bringing to life in 150 pages of colorful illustrations the beloved fantasy novel by Bryan Davis.

MP3 four-book collection: A boy learns of his dragon past; a girl has known of hers for years. They combine their faith, courage, and love to overcome an evil slayer who seeks to bring an end to dragon heritage, forever. For the first time you can listen to Billy’s adventure on MP3 in one complete volume! Dragons in Our Midst is a contemporary fantasy story that inspires young people to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths and use them to overcome any obstacle. It’s a perfect blend of fantasy and science fiction with a Christian message.