num_pages: 399
description: A boy learns of his dragon past; a girl has known 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 in 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 the answers she's looking for.
language: English
title: Raising Dragons
titlecomplete: Raising Dragons (Dragons in Our Midst, #1)
characters: William Bannister, Walter Foley, Bonnie Silver, Sir Devin
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Christian Fiction, Adventure, Christian Fantasy, Dragons, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Christian
ratings_count: 7780
series: Dragons in Our Midst
publisher: Scrub Jay Journeys