A mysterious egg needs the care of your favorite dragons and riders in this all-new Level 1 Ready-to-Read based on DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders—now streaming on Netflix! When Dak and Leyla find dragon eggs they can’t identify, they vow to take extra special care of them until they hatch. Cutter, Burple, and Aggro are put in charge of guarding the mysterious dragon eggs while Dak and Leyla are away. But a Slinkwing dragon tricks them into giving him the eggs. Will they be able to retrieve the eggs without Dak and Leyla’s help? DreamWorks Dragons © 2021 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

"When Dak and Leyla find dragon eggs they can't identify, they vow to take extra special care of them until they hatch."--

"When Dak and Leyla find dragon eggs they can't identify, they vow to take extra special care of them until they hatch."--

A mysterious egg needs the care of your favorite dragons and riders in this all-new Level 1 Ready-to-Read based on DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders—now streaming on Netflix! When Dak and Leyla find dragon eggs they can’t identify, they vow to take extra special care of them until they hatch. Cutter, Burple, and Aggro are put in charge of guarding the mysterious dragon eggs while Dak and Leyla are away. But a Slinkwing dragon tricks them into giving him the eggs. Will they be able to retrieve the eggs without Dak and Leyla’s help? DreamWorks Dragons © 2021 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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It is a rare talent, and only she can care for the Inn's herd. She feeds them, gathers their eggs, and tends to their injuries. But Mella dreams about the dragons of legend, even though hardly anyone believes they still exist. Dragons are small farm animals, not huge fire-breathing monsters. Everyone knows that. Until one day changes everything. A Knight of the Order of Defenders arrives at the Inn. Signs of the mythical dragons have led him there, he says. Then a simple errand takes Mella through the forest, where she stumbles across a dragon's egg—and faces the true, terrifying dragon guarding it. On the spot, Mella vows to get the egg safely to the fabled Hatching Grounds. She must leave her home for the first time, and she finds an unlikely companion in the Defender's squire, Roger. For Mella and Roger, this one day is the beginning of an adventure. Where will it take them?

“In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers. Praise for Dragon’s Egg “Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov “Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven “This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert “Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson “Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post