title: Dragon and Herdsman: The Fourth Dragonback Adventure
author:  Timothy Zahn 
description: Grade 5-8Jack Morgan, a 14-year-old orphaned thief on a distant planet, is the symbiont (biological partner) of Draycos, a wise, dragonlike alien. Jack and Draycos are on the run from a squadron of bad guys called the Malison Ring after Jack tries to break into their computer system. They, along with their sometime-friend Alison, temporarily escape to the wilderness of the planet Rho Scorvi, where they encounter a herd of beasts, the Phookas, very much like Draycoss Kda people, but with seemingly little intelligence. When the Malison Ring arrives and starts tearing up the forest in pursuit of Jack, he must become a herdsman of the Phookas while trying to save their lives and his own. Each volume in this adventure saga reveals a little more about the reticent Kda and about Jack, who grows from a heedless boy to a true hero. Great escape reading for classic sci-fi fans.<i>Walter Minkel, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  **DEDICATION**
  
   _For Netaa-niimid Aamo-ikwe_
  
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   **CONTENTS**
  
  [COVER](Cover.html)
  
  TITLE PAGE
  
  DEDICATION
  
  MAP
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  ONE: The Hunting Spirit
  
  TWO: Gaawiin Mashi
  
  THREE: Reunion
  
  FOUR: Small Things
  
  FIVE: Sons of Zhigaag
  
  SIX: The Way It Happened
  
  SEVEN: The Chase
  
  EIGHT: Bouyah
  
  NINE: Into The Plains
  
  TEN: Two Strike’s Knives
  
  ELEVEN: River Break
  
  TWELVE: The Strange Family
  
  THIRTEEN: A Desperate Matter
  
  FOURTEEN: Setting Up Home
  
  FIFTEEN: At the Mercy of Two Strike
  
  SIXTEEN: The Small and the Fierce
  
  SEVENTEEN: The Cart Train
  
  EIGHTEEN: Red River Trail
  
  NINETEEN: Uncle Quill
  
  TWENTY: Makoons
  
  TWENTY-ONE: St. Paul
  
  TWENTY-TWO: Touching Earth
  
  TWENTY-THREE: Return of the Bouyah
  
  TWENTY-FOUR: The Snake Nest
  
  TWENTY-FIVE: The Wind
  
  AUTHOR’S NOTE ON THE OJIBWE LANGUAGE
  
  GLOSSARY AND PRONUNCIATION GUIDE OF OJIBWE TERMS
  
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  OTHER WORKS
  
  CREDITS
  
  COPYRIGHT
  
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  ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
  
  