Chapter book
Eragon is about a boy who finds a dragon egg. It follows the same lines of the typical epic, but has fresh and invigorating humor, prose, and vocabulary. The characters are human and make mistakes. Eragon finds a blue stone, which later hatches into a dragon. Along this adventure, he finds out that the dragon is one of the last remaining dragons and it becomes his duty to not only save and raise it, but to fight the evil forces that are running his homeland. Eragon not only becomes a Dragon Rider, but saves the Empire from the cruel King Galbatorix. I think this book is great because it can help show students the typical elements of an epic tale. It’s entertaining to read with high vocabulary, and students can compare and contrast characters in this novel with others that they have read. I think it’s a challenging read, but one that will help students further their thinking if they are able to handle the material.
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