Amazon Category:  Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing, Inc. ISBN-10:  1936381427 Type: Fiction Pages: 153 Copyright: 2013 ISBN-13: 9781936381425 While visiting her father in rural Oklahoma, twelve-year-old Myra Goodfellow finds a baby dragon from Kasan, the home planet of the Guardian Dragons of Earth. When she and Aiden (the boy next door) accidentally Dream Travel to Kasan, they must protect the baby dragon from the Red World Society, a secret alien group determined to rule both Kasan and Earth. Excerpt Chapter 1 Into the Woods THE woods were quiet, much too quiet. And still. Not the friendly stillness of summer when fat green leaves cover the trees and reach out to hug you, but a bothersome kind of feeling that puts goose bumps on your arms. Not wanting to make a sound, Myra steped carefully over fallen twigs and branches and promptly set her foot into a shallow hole hidden by dead leaves. "Ow-ww!" she yelped, losing her balance and sitting down hard on the damp ground. So much for being quiet. She rubbed her ankle, and then tested it gently. It would do. It had to do. No way was she going back to that house any sooner than she had to. Like dinnertime maybe. Or maybe not, depending on how she felt. And right now she wanted nothing to do with Daddy or Grammy and Pop and their big old house in Winston, Oklahoma. She trudged on in the same direction, no longer concerned about leaves crunching under her feet. No one would hear anyway, except maybe the chickadees and finches flitting from tree to tree. Nobody else walked around these woods, and for sure no one but Myra knew where she was going. ..... If she hadn't been looking around, watching the ground so closely, she might have walked right by the nest. At least, that's what she called it later. Right now all she saw was a big hole scooped out of the dirt on the far side of the stream. It was a really big hole, but even stretching as far as she dared, she couldn't see into it. ..... What was it? But even as the question formed in her mind, she knew. There was no doubting that shape. Myra was looking at a giant egg.

Dream Travel & Dragon Shadows
Amanda M. Hopper: 5 stars

"Secret of the Crystal Dragon" draws the reader in by expertly weaving Kasan into Earth's history and keeps them turning the pages to find the truth behind Myra's unique ability to mind-talk with the baby dragon.

The 12-year-old main character is authentic with her quick judgements and sarcasm. Still recovering from her parents divorce, she struggles to trust her own heart while Aiden gives her the courage to trust others. With each new hurdle they face, the story hints that Myra and Aiden may be more important to the futures of Kasan and Earth than they could ever imagine.

Middle grade to adult readers will enjoy losing themselves in dream-travel and dragon shadows. While the end of the book answers some of the reader's questions, "Secret of the Crystal Dragon" is the first installment of the "Guardians of the Blue Planet" series and future books hold the promise of revealing more about the girl who is only beginning to discover her destiny.