While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets several people to help him repair it.
An artist agrees to paint a dragon on the wall of a Chinese village, but the magistrate's insistence that he paint eyes on the dragon has amazing results.
Dando, a young dragon who cannot fly, is captured by dangerous humans, but a kind slave girl, an orphaned bird, and the melancholy son of the dragon's captor help him escape his imprisonment and learn to fly.
At Dragonsdale, riding is the most important thing in the world, but Cara, daughter of the stable's Dragonmaster, can only dream of soaring through the skies.
Digory, a gentle boy who likes to spend time alone in the forest and make up songs to sing, accidentally becomes a knight and reluctantly sets off to rescue damsels in distress, slay dragons, and marry a princess.
Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily return to Lonely Island to save their friend, Fafnyr, a three-headed dragon, from being captured by a rich man who wants to put the creature on display.
A knight who is so interested in wearing just the right armor to fight the dragon forces a princess to take matters into her own hands and tame the ferocious beast.
Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
