The Hidden Kingdom

Fantasy

Print length: 336 pagesScholastic Inc., 2023

Description

Glory and her fellow dragonets enter the rain forest hoping to find shelter from the war consuming the dragon kingdoms. Glory has spent her life hearing that RainWings are lazy and insignificant, yet she knows her tribe’s color-changing scales and her own deadly venom make them far more formidable than outsiders assume. The RainWings she meets seem peaceful, comfortable, and strangely indifferent to events beyond their forest. Then members of the tribe begin to disappear. Determined to learn what is happening, Glory draws the other dragonets into an investigation that challenges the RainWings’ complacency and connects their hidden home to the wider conflict. This Wings of Fire adventure combines a lush fantasy setting with questions of prejudice, responsibility, and leadership.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Atmospheric · Descriptive · Dialogue-driven · Direct

Pace

Brisk

Tone

Atmospheric · Hopeful · Suspenseful · Tense

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Mystery · Plot

Emotional intensity

3 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

BelongingCommunityIdentityInequalityPowerWar

About Tui Sutherland

Tui Sutherland writes children’s fantasy on a broad scale while keeping its language and movement close to young characters. In Wings of Fire, she reverses the familiar human-centered dragon story, building societies in which dragons hold power and people begin at the margins. The series unfolds in five-book arcs and shifts viewpoint from one dragon to another, so conflicts are revised by changes in knowledge, loyalty, and position rather than resolved by a single chosen hero. Humor and contemporary dialogue keep the worldbuilding accessible, while details drawn from animal habitats and reptile and insect behavior give its tribes distinct bodies and environments. War and violence remain consequential, but Sutherland’s recurring emphasis is on character change, moral complication, and the agency of differently situated protagonists.

Series

Wings of Fire · Book 3

The Lost Heir

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781338883213

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