Eu li esse romance quando era jovem, então ele deve ter sido publicado antes dos meados da 90. Era sobre um garoto que descobriu um dragão bebê no cadáver de sua mãe que havia sido caçado (acho) pelo irmão do garoto. Acho que o garoto tentou levar o bebê para se reunir com seu próprio tipo, enquanto os dragões eram ferozmente caçados.
A história se passa em uma vila medieval e me lembro que a capa era predominantemente azul.
The Dragonling por Jackie Koller
Darek can't wait for his first Dragonquest. Then he can be just like his older brother, Clep, the hero who brought down a Great Blue, the largest and fiercest dragon of all. Darek goes to admire the kill -- and finds a dragonling peeking out of the giant dragon's pouch. Scared but curious, he feeds the hungry baby and makes an unlikely friend. But to save the helpless dragonling he must now venture into the fearsome Valley of the Dragons, risking his life to return his friend to his own fire-breathing kind!
Exceto pelo aspecto medieval, este poderia ser o ponto de vista de Robin McKinley. Dragonhaven
Jake lives with his scientist father at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining Draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild.
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On Jake’s first overnight solo in the park, he meets a dragon—the thing that he would have said he wanted above everything else in the world. But this dragon is dying—dying next to the human she has killed. Jake knowns this news could destroy Smokehill. The dead man is clearly a poacher who attacked first, but that will be lost in the outcry against dragons. But then Jake notices something even more urgent: the dragon has just given birth, and one of the babies is still alive…