about the book
Growing up on an alien world colonized by humanity, thirteen-year-old orphan Piper makes a living scrounging for scraps of metal and trinkets that fall from the sky in meteor storms.
One day while out in the fields scrapping, Piper finds a living being in the meteor wreckage! Her name is Anna, and she doesn’t remember much about how she crashed in the field, and she has amnesia about most of her life. However, Piper knows something about Anna just by looking at her and her unique tattoo—she belongs to the Dragonfly Territories and is protected by their king.
If Piper returns Anna safely, the reward would lift her out of her poverty! However, the only way to the Dragonfly Territories is the 401, a beautiful old train. And tickets for the 401 are prohibitively expensive.
They could always stow away….
Unfortunately a mysterious green-eyed boy stands guard against stowaways. It doesn’t matter. Anna is being chased, and when what she calls the “wolf” appears on the train platform, she jumps on the 401, with Piper and the green-eyed boy following. Soon they are on their way to fulfill their destinies.
about the author
Jaleigh Johnson was born and raised in the Midwest. She grew up a lover of fantasy, and has written several titles in the popular Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms series line. Her first book for middle schoolers is The Mark of the Dragonfly.
When not working on stories, Jaleigh can be found gaming, working her garden, and seeing cool movies with her husband.
Sources:
Author website
Book trailer: The Mark of the Dragonfly
Also by Jaleigh Johnson:
The Quest to the Uncharted Lands. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. June 2017.
The Secrets of Solace. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. 2016.
read more!
The Farwalker’s Quest by Joni Sensel
When Ariel and her best friend Zeke discover a mysterious telling dart, she feels a strange attraction to it. Telling darts haven’t been seen for generations, and when two strangers show up looking for the dart, Ariel realizes her danger. She is kidnapped, but Zeke rescues her in time, and now the two are on a quest to find the truth of the dart, and the truth of their calling.
The Secrets of Solace by Jaleigh Johnson
Lina lives on the world of Solace and, as an apprentice to an archivist, she collects, studies, and preserves strange objects that fall from the sky. That is, she was an apprentice until the Iron War began. Now she spends her days hiding in tunnels deep below the surface. When she finds a half-buried spaceship, she trusts no one but a strange boy to help her dig up the wreck. Then he, too, shares a secret with Lina—a secret that could change the entire outcome of the Iron War.
The Luck Uglies (Book 1) by Paul Durham
Young Rye O’Chanter knows strange things are apt to happen in Village Drowning. People are fined for non-existent laws, girls are forbidden from reading, and some books are even outlawed—like ones speaking about the Bog Noblins, thought to be extinct. They are not. Rye has seen one. Now the only way to save her town is to find the legendary but exiled Luck Uglies.