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Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke is an okay book that's about dragons who went into hiding in the Rim of Heaven from Nettlebrand, a ferocious dragon-eating dragon. Go figure. When a dragon named Firedrake is given the information that humans are going to flood his valley, drowning all of the dragons somewhere in Europe, he is determined to find the Rim of Heaven and bring his family and friends there. He brings a brownie named Sorrell and along the way picks up a homeless boy named Ben. But Nettlebrand had lost all track of the dragons when they retreated to the Rim of Heaven, and when he finds out about Firedrake, he sends a spy named Twigleg to go after them. Strangely, Twigleg befriends Ben after getting stuck with them in the unlikely event of getting trapped by humans and released by one. Twigleg doesn't know what to do- betray the first and only friends he has, or not get eaten, like his eleven brothers? Read the book to find out!

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