Dragonrider

It's been forty years since Tiwan's father Iko convinced a dragon to save their village. Now the dragons are back, and they want Tiwan's help in a war against an enemy in their world's oceans. But she's just a child, so what could she do? The dragons threaten to invade the humans' world if they lose the war. Tiwan reluctantly agrees to go on a spying mission for them, even though she risks being lost in the dragons' world forever.

The Last Dragonrider is a prequel to the other Dragonrider books.The Dragonriders of the Nuhysean Army fly huge gliders, the closest they can get to the legendary creatures they were named after.In the middle of a brutal civil war, a young Dragonrider called Neeru discovers some mosaics in a ruined temple that could upend everything they thought they knew about the dragons... and themselves.Neeru soon learns that some of her leaders would rather the discovery remained secret. Who can she trust when her country is divided against itself?As the war ends, tensions persist. An older and wiser Neeru returns to the temple to find the mosaics destroyed. Now that she's the only witness to them, can she find out what really happened to the dragons and how to bring them back? Steven J Pemberton writes intelligent and witty fantasy for children, teenagers and adults, or as he puts it, "anyone old enough to understand."He was born in England in 1970, the son of a librarian and a teacher, so it was probably inevitable that he would grow up loving books. For most of his childhood, he and his family lived in New Zealand, returning to England in 1981. He graduated from the University of York in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He now lives in Blackpool with his partner, where he works as a software developer.Visit Steven's website at http://www.pembers.net for bonus material and news of new releases.

Teacher Iko has a problem with pirates: they keep raiding his village, taking whatever they want. Dusty documents in the archives suggest a last-chance solution: summon a dragon to destroy them. Of course everyone knows dragons don't exist, so Iko is as surprised as anyone else when the summoning works.The dragon refuses to help - his race were once slaves to humans, and he has no desire to become one himself. But in answering the summons, he created a magical bond between himself and Iko, which will have consequences neither of them can foresee...