Eragon

Paolini, Christopher.  Eragon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

ISBN: 0375826688 | Hardcover | 509 p. | $11.98 USD

Annotation: In the fictional land of Alagaesia, a 15-year-old boy named Eragon finds a rare blue stone that hatches into a dragon.  Eragon embarks on a journey across the land as he encounters a complex world of magic, violence, elves and dwarves in Christopher Paolini's debut fantasy novel.

Awards / Honors:

- Beehive Awards (Utah): Young Adult Books

- BILBY - Books I Love Best Yearly (Australia) : Older Reader

- Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio): Grades 6-8

- Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award

- Colorado Children's Book Award: Junior Book (1992-present)

- E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards: Middle Reader

- Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award)

- Gateway Readers Award (Missouri)

- Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High School

- Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona): Teen Book

- Iowa Teen Award

- Nene Award (Hawaii)

- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards: Grades 6-8

- Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Choice Book Award (Illinois)

- Rhode Island Teen Book Award

- Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma): Young Adult Books

- Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming)

- South Carolina Book Awards: Young Adult Books

- Surrey Schools' Book of the Year Award (British Columbia)

- Virginia Readers' Choice Award: Middle School (Grades 6-9)

- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: Adventure Seekers (2012)

- Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest): Intermediate

Open End Booktalk:  What would you think if you found a shiny blue stone in the forest?  When an orphan named Eragon picks up this strange object while hunting, he just hopes its worth some money so he can sell it.  Much to his surprise, the blue stone hatches one night to reveal a dragon.  Eragon is shocked.  There are no more dragons left in all of the land.   Will he escape the people hunting this rare creature?  As Eragon travels across the land in search of revenge ands safety, he begins to wonder, will he really become a powerful dragon rider?  

Eragon was made into a movie! Check out the trailer:

"My favorite thing to read is fantasy. I like getting into a good fantasy story and forgetting everything else that's going on... Gail Carson Levine is my favorite author." - Mary S.