Dragon's Milk

by Susan Fletcher

Book Overview

Kaeldra possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try and save her sister who needs dragon's milk to recover from an illness. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416997121
• ISBN13: 9781416997122
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A book about the sacrifices one makes when caring for those who cannot care for themselves.

A cute book about caring for dragon babies! It’s a bit tropey and the romance is weak and feels very underdeveloped, but the character of Kaeldra and her complicated relationship with the dragon babies is very well done. Her moments of varying strength and weakness were really compelling and set the book apart for me. Not a fantastic book, but worth the read if the themes of sacrifice and caring for the helpless are interesting to you. I had a good time and I might read it again someday.

I loved this book so much I'm buying the other two in the series right now!

Loved this book. Just finished reading it and I'm off to order the other 2 in the series. A really cute story that had me crying at parts. I've been on a dragon story kick and I'm not stopping! It's a great little tale of survival and I can't wait for the other books! You'll fall in love with the draclings. If you like them as well which I'm guessing you do! Give Dragon's Milk a read, also take a look at Jane Yolen's dragon pit chronicles.

Enter the Dragon's Lair

If you're looking for a book with fantasy and plenty of adventure, the Dragon Chronicles is the series for you. In this first book, Kaeldra, a Kragish girl living as an outsider with some Elythians, struggles to fit in. The strange thing about Kaeldra besides her having straw-colored hair, unlike the Elythians' sleek raven color, and being abnormally tall, is that she has green eyes. According to ragish myths, a girl with green eyes is a dragonsayer and can call dragons. Kaeldra fiercely refuses to believe it, but when her youngest half-sister, Lyf, gets sick with vermillion fever, she must face the truth. She must go in the dragon's lair and get its milk. And so following in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Kara, who could communicate with dragons (see Flight of the Dragon Kyn), Kaeldra journeys to the great dragon Fiora's den and takes care of her three draclings, later called Pyro, Ember, and Synge. Her fate is entwined with theirs when Fiora is suddenly slain and she is on an adventure of a lifetime to bring the draclings to Landerath. Along with the three specially characterized draclings, she finds out that she does really belong. You MUST MUST read this book!

Remembered Forever

My mother read this book to me when I was in grade school. Both of us were completely enthralled by it. This book was the book that started my fanatical love of dragons. Since my mother read it to me, I've read it on my own twice. We enjoyed it so much, we sought out the two sequels, Sign of the Dove and Flight of the Dragon Kyn. One of the best features of this book was the dragons perceived as being capable 'good guys.' Too many times we read of dragons as being bloodthirsty, hoarding beasts that kill innocents as a past time activity. In Dragon's Milk, the dragons are not perceived as weak by any means whatsoever, but shows that they can, and do, love. The characters (especially the draclings) are well developed and unique. There is some tragedy, but it only makes this wonderful story better. I'm now fifteen, and I recently re-read Dragon's Milk. I still adore the story, but it is intended for middle school readers. There is no doubt that Dragon's Milk will be a story I read to my children one day.

She has green eyes like no other?

Kaeldra, the main character of this book, is put to a major decision which will cause her life or death. One she finds out that her foster-sister has a life-taking disease, Kaeldra sets out to find a cure. From her grandma, she finds out that her mother could speak to dragons and she must be able too, because she comes from a long line of dragon-sayers, which are people who can communicate with dragons. Her grandma tells her that dragon's milk is the only thing that can heal Kaeldra's sister.Dragons, though, do not have the best of tempers. When Kaeldra gets to the lair of the dragon, she may find out she may not have gotten the trait from her mother. What will happen. Will Kaeldra get killed while trying to save her sister? Or will she be one of the only who can talk to dragons?Read this book to either make a heart striking discovery, or a heart killing end.This book is amazing, and I could not stop reading it. I would have finished it in one day, except I had, amazingly enough, school. So, instead it took me two amazing days which were packed with excitment from this book. If you like books about dragons, fantasy, or a girl just trying to prove herself worthy of honor, then read this book.

Kaeldra and the three draclings

This book by Susan Fletcher is about a girl named Kaeldra whose sister is sick with Vermilion Fever. She will die if she doesn't get the cure: dragon's milk. Kaeldra has to earn it from a dragon by watching her draclings while she is out hunting. But one night, she learns that the mother dragon died and she has to take the babies to a place where they won't be killed. The rest of this book you will have to read for yourself. This is an adventure book, but it also has a little bit of sadness and just a little bit that is gross, but it is still a very exciting book to read. This is a sixth grade reader that just loves this book. READ THIS BOOK!

I Felt like I was in The story.

Dragons Milk is one of the best books Ive ever read. Its about a girl named Kaeldra whos sister gets sick and her only cure is dragons milk. Kaeldra is told to go off and return with dragons milk. The only way she could get the milk was to make a deal with the mother dragon Fiora to watch her three draclings while Fiora went off in the night to find food. After Fiora gets killed the draclings are in danger so Kaeldra has to go on a dangerous journey to find a safe place for the draclings. When I read this book I was not able to put it down, I felt as though I was in the book. I was fortunate to have met Susan Fletcher at my school last year.