How to Train Your Dragon: How to Be a Pirate

by Cressida Cowell

Book Overview

7 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE HIT MOVIES

Action-packed, hilarious, and perfectly illustrated, the How to Train Your Dragon series is a beloved modern classic with millions of fans across the globe. Journey into the adventure that started it all for Hiccup and Toothless

When Hiccup finds a coffin at sea, he opens it to discover a riddle that will lead to the treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly, the world's greatest pirate and Hiccup's ancestor. So Hiccup and his friends set out on a treasure hunt, determined to master the art of swordfighting. How else will they escape an island of murderous dragons, defeat a boatload of Viking pirates, and survive all the twists and turns their journey will bring?

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Read all the books in the series
1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. How to Be a Pirate
3. How to Speak Dragonese
4. How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
5. How to Twist a Dragon's Tale
6. A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
7. How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
8. How to Break a Dragon's Heart
9. How to Steal a Dragon's Sword
10. How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
11. How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
12. How to Fight a Dragon's Fury

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316085286
• ISBN13: 9780316085281
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Adventure Lovers!

My 7 year old absolutely loves this series and has been tearing through them with reckless abandon.

It was super, duper great!!! (Kid Review)

My Name is Jack and I'm 8 years old and I love to read. I read this book in three days because I just couldn't stop reading. I loved it because it was funny, surprising, and one of the best books I've read. My favorite part was when the boat sinks and Hiccup ends up in an underwater cave and finds the treasure of Grimbeard the Gastly. It's all about Pirates, Vikings and Dragons which I love. Now I am gong to find the other books in the series too!

Very Cool

Cressida Cowell does it again in this wonderful sequel of How to Train Your Dragon (which is also five stars). This is a fantastic book of a viking boy named Hiccup who is not exactly the best at swordfighting, dragon training, or being the king's heir. Unfortunitly, Snoutlout, the bully, is. When a strange Poor-but-honest-famrmer comes along and sends them all on a journey to an island where Skullions (the most dangerous and untrainable dragon ever) run wild, Hiccup must find the treasure before Snoutlout does, or he won't be the heir to the throne. This is a funny book, an enjoyable book, and a book about a boy who finds he is more than what he thought.

another hicup story! lets be pirates!!

i loved this book!! its another hicup story! folowing the story from How to train your dragon this fantasy about a boy and his dragon is one of the best!!!its a funny story and a adventure, if you like dragons and clumsy vikings trying to be pirates you'll love this story if i could give more stars i would!!! if you buy this book i hope you like it!!

Awesome!

How To Train Your Dragon is a great book. It's humorous and there is adventure in this incredible book also. What I love about this book is that Hiccup, the Chief's son, changes from a coward to a hero.