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 1599907240
- ISBN13 9781599907246
- Publish Date 24 April 2012 (first published 3 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 344
- Language English