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Dragon Keepers #3
The Dragon in the Library
Dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy need help!
Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she's missing "something," and the cousins don't have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!
The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie's castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!
In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.
The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and between—too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.
Visit www.foundadragon.org.
Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she's missing "something," and the cousins don't have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!
The kidnapper is none other than Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer. She has hatched a wicked scheme to use the professor to both find St. George and capture Emmy. Now the dragon keepers and their dragon must storm Sadie's castle and rescue the professor from the witch and her pack of vicious dog-men!
In this third fantasy book in the Dragon Keepers series, Kate Klimo introduces readers to a magical library filled with shelf elves and reveals the secrets of the gigantic red book that Jesse and Daisy discovered in The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. She keeps the action and adventure flying while bringing both heart and imagination to this tale of two kids and a dragon, growing up together.
The Dragon Keepers series is perfect for kids who crave books about dragons and magic but are caught betwixt and between—too old for Magic Tree House and not yet ready for Eragon and the Inheritance cycle.
Visit www.foundadragon.org.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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393 people want to read
About the author
Kate Klimo
55 books139 followersKate Klimo spent her early years amidst the cornfields of Iowa where the winters were prodigious. Often, when the snows flash-thawed in the spring, she would find her backyard filled with the flapping, resurrected bodies of fish her ice-fishing father had stored in the snowdrifts. Thus sprang into her young head the unshakable notion that, all winter long, fish escaped from the rivers and magically swum through the snow banks of Mount Vernon, Iowa.
When she moved to the little town of Sea Cliff, on Long Island Sound, she met her best friend Justine in the Stenson Memorial Library at the main desk, where they often checked out the same fantasy writers. Together, they read C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, and George MacDonald and embarked on a tireless search for portals to magical worlds, extending from abandoned Victorian mansions to the decrepit local five-and-dime to the sandy cliffs sweeping down to the Sound.
With her propensity for magical thinking and long-standing love of fantasy, does it come as any surprise that Kate grew up to be in the book business? But after over 25 years of heading up Random House Children’s Books, with the publication of The Dragon in the Sock Drawer in March 2008, Kate began to ease over to the author’s side of the desk.
Now a full-time author, in addition to numerous one-off titles, she has written the middle-grade series The Dragon Keepers series and the Dog Diaries as well the Centauriad for young adults. Under the pen name Bonnie Worth, she has penned over a dozen books in the best-selling Cat in the Hat Learning Library. She lives in New Paltz, New York with her husband and two horses.
When she moved to the little town of Sea Cliff, on Long Island Sound, she met her best friend Justine in the Stenson Memorial Library at the main desk, where they often checked out the same fantasy writers. Together, they read C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, and George MacDonald and embarked on a tireless search for portals to magical worlds, extending from abandoned Victorian mansions to the decrepit local five-and-dime to the sandy cliffs sweeping down to the Sound.
With her propensity for magical thinking and long-standing love of fantasy, does it come as any surprise that Kate grew up to be in the book business? But after over 25 years of heading up Random House Children’s Books, with the publication of The Dragon in the Sock Drawer in March 2008, Kate began to ease over to the author’s side of the desk.
Now a full-time author, in addition to numerous one-off titles, she has written the middle-grade series The Dragon Keepers series and the Dog Diaries as well the Centauriad for young adults. Under the pen name Bonnie Worth, she has penned over a dozen books in the best-selling Cat in the Hat Learning Library. She lives in New Paltz, New York with her husband and two horses.
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February 16, 2026
Not much to say. Similar to the others. Not bad. Teaches a few new words. 3 stars
May 26, 2011
My little girl loves these stories. They’re right on her level with the simple plot, the scary but ineffectual bad guys, and Miss Alodie who always gives them just the right magical object to save the day. If I think they’re a bit obvious and silly in places, I won’t mention it. They’re a great introduction to fantasy for a child that’s reading early, or for a (somewhat long) read aloud for the five to eight year old age range.
September 20, 2020
The title of this book was interesting and something I thought would be fun to read. And then as things go I found out it is actually a part of a series while not even the first book although, unlike many other instances, at least I have seen this particular first book. Although I have liked dragons that first book never really seemed to perk my interest.
Once I started reading this book, though, I found that my interest past the titular concept wasn't in this book. The Dragon In the Library could read as a standalone but I wouldn't recommend it as much. So many of the main concepts for dragon keeping are missing for those who are just picking up the series while although the book does reflect on many numerous events previously mentioned in the series it doesn't delve deep enough to help flesh out the book for those new to the series.
At the same time there is very small character development of the prominent characters including Emmy the dragonlet. Furthermore they all really lack any emotional depth while the emotions that do appear are very superficial and don't contribute to the actual plot or the personalities of the characters for it is just basics like grumpiness, bossiness, etc. And even scenes that demand such emotional depths like a tearful reunion or desperate treachery just didn't really wring any emotional response in me with their lackluster telling.
Following the above complaints the writing itself was also dull and rather undramatic even in the parts where it should have captured the imagination. Kate Klimo also ends up proving that she cannot for her life come up with any other better word substitutions since her favorite word throughout the book was "said". As an example on one two-page spread that same word was used fifteen times. At other times the book was a bit too juvenile with all the butt references and nicey-nices demanded of such a proud beast as dragons are known to be.
The book does have a few grayscale illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. The humans of course were realistic while the dragon is one of the weirdest portrayals that I have ever seen of any draconic characters. But then again what can be expected from a telling of a story where the most likely disguise for a dragon is the shape and behavior of a dog, which clashes against all things dragon.
All in all for me there are a lot better dragon series even for young adults who are just getting into chapter books and want a good fantasy series with dragons as main characters. As a suggestion I would suggest thus steering clear of these particular books.
Once I started reading this book, though, I found that my interest past the titular concept wasn't in this book. The Dragon In the Library could read as a standalone but I wouldn't recommend it as much. So many of the main concepts for dragon keeping are missing for those who are just picking up the series while although the book does reflect on many numerous events previously mentioned in the series it doesn't delve deep enough to help flesh out the book for those new to the series.
At the same time there is very small character development of the prominent characters including Emmy the dragonlet. Furthermore they all really lack any emotional depth while the emotions that do appear are very superficial and don't contribute to the actual plot or the personalities of the characters for it is just basics like grumpiness, bossiness, etc. And even scenes that demand such emotional depths like a tearful reunion or desperate treachery just didn't really wring any emotional response in me with their lackluster telling.
Following the above complaints the writing itself was also dull and rather undramatic even in the parts where it should have captured the imagination. Kate Klimo also ends up proving that she cannot for her life come up with any other better word substitutions since her favorite word throughout the book was "said". As an example on one two-page spread that same word was used fifteen times. At other times the book was a bit too juvenile with all the butt references and nicey-nices demanded of such a proud beast as dragons are known to be.
The book does have a few grayscale illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. The humans of course were realistic while the dragon is one of the weirdest portrayals that I have ever seen of any draconic characters. But then again what can be expected from a telling of a story where the most likely disguise for a dragon is the shape and behavior of a dog, which clashes against all things dragon.
All in all for me there are a lot better dragon series even for young adults who are just getting into chapter books and want a good fantasy series with dragons as main characters. As a suggestion I would suggest thus steering clear of these particular books.
February 22, 2019
Language - G, Sexual Content - G; Violence - G
Jesse and Daisy are having a hard time putting up with a grumpy Emmy and now they have to figure out how to storm a castle too. With "The Big Book" missing and the professor taken prisoner by a witch, they have a lot on their plate. With the help of friends and each other, can they still lose?
Despite it being meant for younger kids, it was an alright book. It's also one of those books that you don't have to read all the books in a row to get what's going on. It reminded me of The Magic Tree House books. They're both about two kids,a boy and girl, and their magical adventures, with some help from adults in on the magic.
Reviewed for https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/
Jesse and Daisy are having a hard time putting up with a grumpy Emmy and now they have to figure out how to storm a castle too. With "The Big Book" missing and the professor taken prisoner by a witch, they have a lot on their plate. With the help of friends and each other, can they still lose?
Despite it being meant for younger kids, it was an alright book. It's also one of those books that you don't have to read all the books in a row to get what's going on. It reminded me of The Magic Tree House books. They're both about two kids,a boy and girl, and their magical adventures, with some help from adults in on the magic.
Reviewed for https://kissthebook.blogspot.com/
September 6, 2017
The characters are captivating and they lead you an awesome adventure in fantasy.
I would recomme3nd it for the young reader or an adult that enjoys this genre.
I would recomme3nd it for the young reader or an adult that enjoys this genre.
September 9, 2018
Though alright for very young readers, the book is not so remarkable as every adversity is always solved - mainly by overpowered dragon magic, overused coincidences, with some help of a woman down the road that seems to know everything for some reason. The villains are rather childish throwing hissy fits when things don’t go their way.
January 18, 2018
This is a fun series, especially for dragon & fantasy fans! I would recommend reading them in order, however. (Library)
April 21, 2018
Unpredictable with some exciting twists and turns! Klimo's world is soft, delightful, and inventive. I love Emmy the dragon and the two protagonists, and the evildoers are always unique in some way.
February 14, 2019
Another fun adventure with Jesse and Daisy and their Dragon Emmy.
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May 29, 2022
I read the other two book they were good but the farther you get into it I thought it got boring! It’s also fantasy and I don’t like fantasy so that might be why.
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November 7, 2022[ read the third book in the series, 'The Dragon in the Sock Drawer' and did not enjoy so will not be continuing with the series ]
May 27, 2012
This is the third book in the Dragon Keepers series by Kate Klimo and John Shroades. We discovered this series by chance during a library visit and my oldest is enthralled. She read the first two book almost nonstop until she finished them. Now that we're almost done with the four-book series, we really hope that more will be published soon!
I found the book to be a quick, entertaining read. It's a great series to introduce children into the sci-fi/fantasy genre and has some suspense and adventure without being too scary or weird. Jesse and Daisy, the main characters, are ten-year-old cousins. This preteen, sibling-like pair are brave and love to explore and they remind me of Jack and Annie from The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.
I liked the literary references. We read The Phantom Tollbooth not too long ago and perhaps in honor of Maurice Sendak, we will read Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life soon. I don't believe I've read any books by E. Nesbit before, but I will add Five Children and It to my to-read list. And we've read a couple of the books in the Chet Gecko Mystery series by Bruce Hale, but I think it's time to check out another.
I loved their visits to the libraries (both human and elf-run.) The sleepover was a fantastic concept (our local library invited our girls to leave their stuffed animals at the library for a 'sleep over' and got a slew of digital photos of them having fun and reading different books, but that's as close as they've ever gotten to something like that. I think it would be wonderful to participate in a library sleepover someday. And the magical Scriptorium is a wonderful concept. I wish I could see something like that!
Overall, we really enjoyed these books and I can certainly see this series continuing past the first four books that have been published so far. Our oldest has raved so much about the series that our youngest is now wanting to read The Dragon in the Sock Drawer.
new word: sarsen
I found the book to be a quick, entertaining read. It's a great series to introduce children into the sci-fi/fantasy genre and has some suspense and adventure without being too scary or weird. Jesse and Daisy, the main characters, are ten-year-old cousins. This preteen, sibling-like pair are brave and love to explore and they remind me of Jack and Annie from The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.
I liked the literary references. We read The Phantom Tollbooth not too long ago and perhaps in honor of Maurice Sendak, we will read Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life soon. I don't believe I've read any books by E. Nesbit before, but I will add Five Children and It to my to-read list. And we've read a couple of the books in the Chet Gecko Mystery series by Bruce Hale, but I think it's time to check out another.
I loved their visits to the libraries (both human and elf-run.) The sleepover was a fantastic concept (our local library invited our girls to leave their stuffed animals at the library for a 'sleep over' and got a slew of digital photos of them having fun and reading different books, but that's as close as they've ever gotten to something like that. I think it would be wonderful to participate in a library sleepover someday. And the magical Scriptorium is a wonderful concept. I wish I could see something like that!
Overall, we really enjoyed these books and I can certainly see this series continuing past the first four books that have been published so far. Our oldest has raved so much about the series that our youngest is now wanting to read The Dragon in the Sock Drawer.
new word: sarsen
July 26, 2016
THIS SERIES IS AWESOME! Every book in the Dragon Keepers series that I read, I find myself to be enjoying it more and more. And as usual, I had many good laughs and giggles.
The story is a lot darker compared to the last 2 books in the series, and I loved it! We also get a new villain too, and I liked her a lot. St. George's girlfriend? Heck yeah. I loved Emmy's development in this book too! She's growing more and more into a dragon! That's another thing that I like about this series, is watching this character grow up in every new book.
The Dragon in the Library was so much fun to read, and is one that I'll read again in a heartbeat!
The story is a lot darker compared to the last 2 books in the series, and I loved it! We also get a new villain too, and I liked her a lot. St. George's girlfriend? Heck yeah. I loved Emmy's development in this book too! She's growing more and more into a dragon! That's another thing that I like about this series, is watching this character grow up in every new book.
The Dragon in the Library was so much fun to read, and is one that I'll read again in a heartbeat!
January 31, 2015
Little Miss loves these stories. They’re right on her level with the simple plot, the scary but ineffectual bad guys, and Miss Alodie who always gives them just the right magical object to save the day. If I think they’re a bit obvious and silly in places, I won’t mention it. They’re a great introduction to fantasy for a child who’s reading early, or for a (somewhat long) read aloud for the five to eight year old age range.
August 3, 2012
This was a really cute book. I remember reading and enjoying the first one. I think I enjoyed the first one more though.
I thought it was a little too unrealistic that they would have a fledgling dragon. I think it would have been cooler if they had meet another Dragon and their Keepers (around the same age, of course) and THEY had a fledgling dragon and rubbed it in their faces and they defended their dragon or something...
I thought it was a little too unrealistic that they would have a fledgling dragon. I think it would have been cooler if they had meet another Dragon and their Keepers (around the same age, of course) and THEY had a fledgling dragon and rubbed it in their faces and they defended their dragon or something...
August 30, 2013
Although this was a good read and flowed well, I felt that it mostly ignored the true story, which was the missing Professor. His return appearance was, in opinion, serendipitous. However, this is still a pleasant little story.
Cute, funny, and entertaining children's story.
Cute, funny, and entertaining children's story.
April 23, 2016
This is a perfect middle grade series. A book that even parents will love to read to their children at bed time. Perfect for boys or girls. I just love the magic in this and the events are so intriguing even for adults.
December 18, 2014
couldn't get into book, didn't like writing style
June 9, 2011
Imagine -- a dragon that can read. wat fun!
July 21, 2011
The best in the series so far! Very creative!
December 7, 2011
Definitely one of my favorites, and yet Emmy is lacking some how. Not sure how, but I loved it nonetheless!
March 15, 2012
I like when emrled the dragon lets her oners ride on her back. - ak
December 10, 2012
Love this series :)
June 29, 2013
This group of stories is amazing! I came across the first book by chance in an old "used book" store... It has become one of my favorite series.
March 27, 2014
Read this book with Cameron. As with the earlier books in this series, I find the writing and character development lacking. However, Cameron enjoys the plot and I enjoy reading with Cameron.
July 4, 2014
this was a good book. very exiting and thrilling.
January 7, 2015
Jesse and Daisy wanted to keep Emmy safe from St. George the Dragon Slayer but then they noticed that it was Sadie Huffingto.
March 18, 2015
What can I say? I love dragons and I love books, therefore I LOVE these books!
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