Here, There Be Dragons

SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by James A. Owen
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Book design by Christopher Grassi and James A. Owen
The text for this book is set in Adobe Jansen Pro.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in pencil, pen and ink, and much good labor.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Owen, James A.
Here, there be dragons / James A. Owen.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter
King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.
ISBN: 1-4169-5137-7
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PZ7.O97124He 2006
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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One: The Imaginarium Geographica
Chapter One:
The Adventure Begins
Chapter Two:
An Unusual Tale
Chapter Three:
Flight to the Harbor
Chapter Four:
Avalon
Part Two: The Archipelago of Dreams
Chapter Five:
The Corsair
Chapter Six:
The Tick-Tock Parliament
Chapter Seven:
The Forbidden Path
Chapter Eight:
An Invitation to Tea
Part Three: The Children of the Earth
Chapter Nine:
Into the Shadows
Chapter Ten:
Marooned
Chapter Eleven:
The Shipbuilder
Chapter Twelve:
The White Dragon
Part Four: In the Keep of Time
Chapter Thirteen:
The Tower
Chapter Fourteen:
Night Passage
Chapter Fifteen:
The Cartographer of Lost Places
Chapter Sixteen:
Fire and Flight
Part Five: The Island at the Edge of the World
Chapter Seventeen:
Hope and Despair
Chapter Eighteen:
The Final Battle
Chapter Nineteen:
The Circle of Stones
Chapter Twenty:
The Return of the Dragons
Part Six: The Summer Country