The Frozen Sea

Dragon Games #2

by Maddy Mara

An adventure-packed series about three kids who travel into a magical, dragon-filled world! Play the game. Save the realm. Team Dragon is back! This time Luca, Yazmine, and Zane have landed in the icy region of North Gelida. Here they must navigate giant frozen waves and outrun a hungry monster made of snow to return the second Thunder Egg to its frosty palace. But Dartsmith, the evil leader of Imperia, is always lurking, determined to make sure the dragon prophecy won’t come true. He’ll do whatever it takes to win the Dragon Games―but Luca, Yazmine, and Zane are determined to stop him!

Genres: Childrens, Dragons, 2nd Grade

144 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2023

About the author

Maddy Mara is the pen name of Melbourne-based creative duo Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger. Hilary and Meredith have been collaborating on children's books for nearly two decades. Hilary is an author and former publishing director; Meredith is the author of countless books for kids and young adults, and teaches English as a foreign language. Maddy Mara is the melding of their respective daughters' names.

Reviews

[Red · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like that the author switched up the positions for this book-- I assume it will be the same for the next book as well. I enjoyed reading about the ice luge and got to discuss that particular sport with my kiddo-- thank you for giving us plenty to talk and learn about outside of the book!

My reader is an 8 y/o boy who likes dragons. He isn't interested in the Dragon Girls series so I'm especially happy that he got into this one. I also appreciate that there are more complicated words like "vicious", "ornate", and "singed", so my reader and I can work on figuring out meaning from context.

(Also, if I'm reading aloud, it counts towards my Goodreads total for the year 😅✌🏻)

[Timothy Burbage · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit better than the last one. I liked how the characters swapped roles and the monster that was chasing them.

Still don't really get the game mechanic side but it's a bit of fun

[Pamela Zeiger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fast read. Adventurous from beginning to end. It holds my 5 year old attention.