Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.

 

This is volume 1 in The Pit Dragon Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 303 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin .

Jane Yolen has written almost three hundred books, many of them awardwinners. She lives in St. Andrews, Scotland, and Hatfield, Massachusetts.