The great wizard Flaxfield's death leaves his twelve-year-old apprentice Sam half-trained, but when other wizards gather and debate his fate Sam, not knowing whom to trust, leaves with only his dragon, Starback, for company, unaware of the perils he must face.
- ISBN10 1599909839
- ISBN13 9781599909837
- Publish Date 5 March 2013 (first published 3 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English