Dragon and Soldier: The Second Dragonback Adventure
Gr. 7-10. As inDragon and Soldier(2003), the first book in the Dragonback Adventure series, there's plenty of humor, and the adventure and danger levels crackle. Still grappling with issues of ethics and morality, 14-year-old Jack Morgan, who has become the symbiotic humanoid host for Draycos, the draconic K'da poet-warrior, feels obligated to help Draycos track down the entities behind a deadly plot to kill off the draconic race. Knowing that mercenaries were involved in the ambush that left Draycos the only survivor, Jack enlists in a mercenary army that recruits teenagers. His spaceship computer, which has the virtual personality of Jack's reprobate dead uncle, is totally against the plan, and Draycos and Jack do, indeed, encounter treachery on many sides and find themselves fighting for their lives. Add to the mix another recruit, Alison Kayna, who knows too much about being a mercenary and seems to have a mysterious agenda of her own. To be continued . . . .Sally EstesCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved