Dragon Rider (Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch (2000), Dragon Rider was published in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell (2004). 524 pages in the first US hardcover edition. The book ranked #1 of the New York Times bestseller list in September 2004.
Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named F...
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Dragon Rider (Drachenreiter) is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch (2000), Dragon Rider was published in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell (2004). 524 pages in the first US hardcover edition. The book ranked #1 of the New York Times bestseller list in September 2004.
Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, the Brownie Sorrel, and Ben, a human boy, in their search for the mythical part of the Himalayas mountain range called the Rim of Heaven.
Rosa the Rat tells the dragons in the valley that humans will flood the valley. The Rim of Heaven is their only hope for a new home. Firedrake sets out with Sorrel, a brownie who loves mushrooms.Later Sorrel finds a boy named Ben, (whom she does not like) an orphan living in a abandoned warehouse. Ben wants to help them find the Rim of Heaven. Although Sorrel disagrees, Firedrake wants Ben to come....
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