Dragon Frontier Books in Order

Dragon Frontier is Dan Abnett's children's adventure series combining a journey into the American West with dragons and an evil force beyond the familiar dangers of the trail. Twelve-year-old Jake Polson begins as part of a family hoping for a new life. When their journey goes wrong, his responsibilities become much greater than helping with the wagon. Finding his missing family draws him into a world where legendary creatures are part of a real and dangerous struggle.

In Dragon Frontier, Jake is proud to drive the lead wagon, manage the oxen and help look after his mother and little sister. The opening gives him a recognizable role within a traveling family before introducing the larger fantasy. An attack on the wagon train separates him from the people he needs to protect. The immediate goal is therefore personal: he isn't exploring the frontier simply to discover something extraordinary, but because his family needs him.

The West holds more than he expected.

Jake's search brings him toward a legendary creature and into contact with people who understand a different side of the landscape. The frontier becomes a place where a familiar Western journey and a fantasy quest overlap. Long distances, unfamiliar territory and uncertain help make travel difficult even before supernatural danger enters the story. The adventure keeps Jake's concern for his family at the center, giving the larger discoveries a purpose beyond their strangeness.

Burning Moon continues with Jake as a member of the Dragon-riders, accompanied by his dragon, Match. The new bond gives him help he didn't have when the journey began, but it doesn't resolve the disappearance that drove him west. He is still determined to find his family and discover the truth behind what happened. Learning more about the world makes him better equipped to continue, while also revealing that the danger extends beyond the first attack.

The partnership with Match is a central change in Jake's circumstances. He is no longer simply a boy trying to cope alone after a disaster. He has an extraordinary companion and a connection to a wider group, giving the series a continuing arc of growing capability. At the same time, becoming a Dragon-rider brings him closer to the evil waiting on the frontier. The help he gains and the threats he discovers develop together rather than canceling one another out.

Read Dragon Frontier before Burning Moon to follow Jake from the wagon train into his role among the Dragon-riders. The tone is children's fantasy adventure with a Western setting, a family rescue mission and a dragon partnership. Readers who like young heroes learning as they travel will find a clear thread through the books: Jake must enter an unfamiliar world to recover the people who made his old world feel secure.