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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2015 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 8 Up—There is a little something for everyone in this sequel to the acclaimed The Story of Owen (Carolrhoda Lab, 2014). Fantasy fans will love returning to an alternate world in which the armed forces slay dragons. History fans will get a kick out of the way Johnston intermixes actual U.S. and Canadian history with a dragon-friendly ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2015
Now that dragon slayer Owen Thorskard and bard Siobhan McQuaid have graduated from high school, their plan to use Owen's renown and Siobhan's musical ability to reshape the relationship between dragon slayers and the public can enter its next phase. In this sequel to the alternate-universe contemporary fantasy The Story of Owen (rev. 3/14), the duo begins compulsory service in the Oil Watch, a military organization protecting the world's carbon sources from hungry dragons. Siobhan, however, faces a greater ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
Famed dragon slayer Owen Thorskard and bard Siobhan McQuaid (whose hands were severely burned in The Story of Owen) begin ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
