“I can’t live cooped up in this mountain forever, going nowhere, doing nothing –” My voice echoed around the cave, until Grandfather and both of my aunts were calling their own sleepy protests down the long tunnels of our home, but I ignored them. “I can’t wait another thirty years!” I bellowed. “In another thirty years, perhaps, when you’re nearly grown and ready to fly. “Let alone a bullet or a mage’s spell,” she added wearily. “Your scales haven’t hardened enough to withstand even a wolf’s bite.” Mother’s great head sank back down toward her glittering blue-and-gold feet. “I would have helped you hunt,” I said, jumping off Jasper.
“Some of us are trying to sleep after a long, hard hunt!” “Children!” Our mother raised her head from her forefeet and let out a long-suffering snort that blew through the cave, sending more gold coins flying.
But Jasper was the one who landed there instead, while I joyously pounced on his back and rubbed his snout in the pile of rocks. If I hadn’t been expecting it, I would have been slammed into a mountain of loose diamonds and emeralds, and my still-soft scales would have been bruised all over. He let out the most satisfying roar of rage and leaped forward, landing exactly where I’d been sitting only a moment ago. Here’s how sibling roughhousing goes in a dragon’s cave: won't she?Ī classic fantasy with terrific girl power, perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Jessica Day George.The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart is delightful! Aventurine is a young dragon, cooped up in her family’s cave for decades while her scales harden.
All she has to do is get to the human city to find herself an apprenticeship (whatever that is) in a chocolate house (which sounds delicious), and she'll be conquering new territory in no time. Still, she's the fiercest creature in these mountains-and now she's found her true passion: chocolate. Her family thinks she's too young to fly on her own, but she's determined to prove them wrong by capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human.īut when that human tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, she's transformed into a puny human without any sharp teeth, fire breath, or claws. Aventurine is a brave young dragon ready to explore the world outside of her family's mountain cave.
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