Six YA Fantasy Books About Dragons

By Lilian Calix
December 8, 2014

There are many popular fantasy themes in YA novels right now and one of my favorites is dragons!

Here are six YA book series about dragons: 

Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz  and Michael Johnston is a dystopian novel in which a girl named Cass decides to go on a dangerous journey across the sea to a land called the Blue. Frozenis followed by Stolen. The third book in the series is untitled as of now.

Scorched by Mari Mancusi tells the story of Trinity Fox a girl who lives with heir grandfather. Trinity's grandfather owns a museum. Trinity does not believe that her grandfather has found a real dragon egg until she begins to hear things from inside of the egg. The novel quickly takes Trinity on an adventure while soldiers try to capture her to take the egg. A boy comes from the future in the hopes of convincing her to help him the impending dragon wars. Trinity must chose sides. Scorched is followed by Shattered and Smoked

Firelight by Sophie Jordan sixteen year old Jacinda is a shape shifter who can change into a dragon and falls in love with a dragon hunter. Firelight is followed by Vanish and Hidden

The immensely popular Abhorsen series by Garth Nix begins with Sabriel.  Sabriel is the epic story of Sabriel a  girl who enters the dangerous Old Kingdom to rescue her father. The old kingdom is full of dangers such as Free Magic. In the Old Kindgdom Sabriel will face her destiny. Sabriel is followed by Lirael, Abhorsen and Clariel. 

In Voice of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn, Kary and her dragon friend, Artegal, try to show that humans and dragons can co-exist peacefully. 

Talon by Julie Kagawa is the story of the Talon society is a secret society of dragons that want to take over the world.  Ember and Dante Hill are the only brother and sister duo known to dragon kind. Ember is a young girl who has been sent to infiltrated to human world as a teenager. However a rogue dragon threatens her future. Ember and Dante are hunted by the St. George dragon hunters. The young dragon hunter, Garret is sent after Ember but as he gets to know her he begins to question his mission and seeks to learn more about the dragons. Talon is followed by Rogue which will be published April 28, 2015. There are also three other untitled novels in the works.