The Great Texas Dragon Race

By Kacy Ritter

A daring race to save a dragon sanctuary pits a young girl against corporate greed and perilous challenges.

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400 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Cassidy Drake, a spirited thirteen-year-old, defies her father's wishes to enter the Great Texas Dragon Race with her dragon, Ranga. Racing to save her family's sanctuary, Cassidy faces five daunting tasks and fierce competitors, including the ruthless FireCorp team. As she soars across Texas, Cassidy must navigate treacherous skies and outsmart her enemies. Can she triumph against greed and danger to protect the dragons she loves? The race is on, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

From the publisher

Wings of Fire meets The Hunger Games in this debut contemporary middle grade fantasy stand-alone about thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake, who enters the dangerous Great Texas Dragon Race to save her family’s dragon sanctuary.Thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake wants nothing more than to race with her best dragon, Ranga, in the annual Great Texas Dragon Race. Her mother was a racing legacy, and growing up on her family’s dragon sanctuary ranch, Cassidy lives and breathes dragons. She knows she could win against the exploitative FireCorp team that cares more about corporate greed than caring for the dragons. Cassidy is so determined to race that she sneaks out of her house against her father’s wishes and enters the competition. Soon Cassidy takes to the skies with Ranga across her glorious Lone Star State.But with five grueling tasks ahead of her, dangerous dragon challenges waiting at each one, and more enemies than allies on the course, Cassidy will need to know more than just dragons to survive.

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