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Dragon Slayers' Academy #10

Help! It's Parents Day at DSA

Name: Help! It's Parents Day at DSA (Dragon Slayer's Academy, #10)
Rating: 4.07 (18 reviews)
ISBN: 9780448432205

Kate McMullan, Bill Basso (Illustrator)

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It's visiting day at Dragon Slayers' Academy and Wiglaf's entire family is coming! Will Wiglaf be able to survive the day with his wacky parents and crude older brothers and come out of it without becoming the laughingstock of the entire school? Hot on the heels of book #9, here's another all-new story starring everyone's favorite dragon-slayer-in-training.

GenresFantasyChildrensFictionMiddle GradeAdventureDragonsNovels

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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Kate McMullan

223 books153 followers

Kate McMullan is an American children's book author.
She is the author of the Dragon Slayers' Academy series. She is married to author and illustrator James McMullan.

She also has books published under the name: Katy Hall.

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Sandra

134 reviews1 follower

February 27, 2012

After reading more sophisticated books about wizards, this one seemed a little juvenile. But it's cute. I especially like the dim-witted King Ken. And his daughter Erica, who hides her identity so she can go to all-boy DSA instead of learning to master haughty looks and ordering subjects around at Princess Prep, is a fine girl role model. No. 10 in a series.

Dolly

Author 1 book669 followers

October 5, 2012

This is the tenth book in the Dragon Slayers' Academy series by Kate McMullan. Our girls have been reading a few different dragon stories and so this series piqued their interest.

The story centers around a school where children are taught to become dragon slayers, primarily for the purpose of enriching the school's headmaster with the slain dragon's hoard. So far he hasn't been the beneficiary of much dragon gold, but I get the feeling that with 19 books in the series, he will keep sending his boys out, hoping to succeed at long last.

It's a very entertaining story, with lots of subtle tongue-in-cheek humor and word play within the narrative. The drama in this book centers on Wiglaf and Erica fearing that they may have to leave the school at the end of Parents Day. I love that Worm spends a lot of time at the library and has become quite a 'book worm.' There are a lot of anachronisms in this story, but it doesn't detract from the fun.

It's a quick read and I liked the story. Our oldest has been reading these stories on her own, so I'm reading them quickly to catch up with her in the series. I am sure that we will look for more of the books in this series at our local library.

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Atbash (Emma)

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October 21, 2024

BACK IN THE SADDLE WITH BOOK 10 and a confusingly long title. They could have kept the rhyme and cut off the first two words and it still would have worked. Wiglaf's face conveys the urgency well enough. There was no need for all of that.

Okay, so no Zelnoc OR Daisy in this one, but I am pleased to see that Worm the young dragon hasn't disappeared to whatever literary storage closet Surekill the magic dagger– and that dog they had that one time– are hidden away in. The climax of this one was sweet– I love any time Wiglaf gets to feel excited for something or feel good about himself– and it was unexpectedly nice to let Wiglaf's parents see him succeed in something and show pride in him. None of the animosity we feel from them in the first book shows at all in this one, actually. I have to wonder if the series intended to be a little less feel-good when it started.

And then the other thing that really popped out in this one was the gender politics. I've been holding off on talking about Erica's whole deal, because I wanted to see if there were any further developments down the line, but we're halfway through the series now, so meh. She's a functional crossdresser– she presents as a boy in order to gain access to training that she would be denied as a girl. There's no evidence of dysphoria here; she lets her friends know her as a girl, and she only gets irritated when refer to her as one because it might give her away to anyone listening. She resents the expectations placed upon her as a princess because they get in the way of her hobbies, and that's about it. You could make the argument that she doesn't have a strong internal sense of gender (her gender is dragonslayer, dammit), but that doesn't necessarily preclude her from being a girl dragonslayer. If that were an option for her, it seems like she would take it. (Honestly, even though it's still weak, she works better as a transfeminine parallel than a transmasculine one. Like Mulan.) Pretty clear-cut: mainly a misogyny thing, not a transgender thing.

....but man, the misogyny was kind of harsh in this one? A big chunk of the plot involves Angus being chosen by his aunt to play a girl in the musical to punish his mother (big fan of whatever's going on in that sibling trio, by the way. Wiglaf getting to say "Hooray for bossy older sisters!" is one of the funniest things to come out of this series), Angus hating it, and his mother rescuing him from the indignity. Early 2000s writing, culturally uncontested transmisogyny, nothing more humiliating and discomforting than Boy being Girl, etc. Like, when Erica does it, it's cool and sneaky and saves her from a horrible, boring time at Useless Princess School where they learn Useless Feminine Activities (which, one, portrayal of actions associated with femininity as lesser, and TWO, education segregated by gender where one gender is textually, structurally, given a less meaningful education), but when Angus does it, everyone knows it's dumb and stupid and he doesn't even want to do it and thank goodness his mom storms in and pulls him from the play last minute. Like, yeesh. Wiglaf (who is also emasculated by his casting in the musical, initially– a role targeting his size, which is actually true about him and something he's bullied for, and which is resolved by Erica lending him a costume that actually fits him and makes him feel good..... hm) is permitted to be a little gender non-conforming, at least– Worm still calls him Mommy, and that's never portrayed as anything but sweet, and Wiglaf's never anything but happy to hear it.

What else. I liked Erica's parents a lot. They were silly and I know I just got done saying Not Transmasculine Allegory but Erica's mom literally saying to her oh, hon, we thought this [dragonslaying] thing was just going to be a phase... we wanted you to get it out of your system. but you're still a [princess]. Like HEY wow okay. I don't quite know what to make of Erica proving herself to her mom by (literally, on a stage) performing perfect femininity to prove that she didn't need any more education on the topic... Like, look mom, I pass as a girl so well that it's okay if I keep presenting as a boy? Or in order to get a pass for liking things associated with masculinity, she had to master femininity first? But either way, it ends with both her mom and dad letting her stay and using her chosen(??????) masculine name on the way out. I don't know. It's the theater book, Wiglaf is now known for his acting chops more than his slaying skills, they're theater kids now. Of course there's unintelligible gender fuckery afoot. It's the theater book. Three stars.

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Bonnie

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July 22, 2007

I bought this book when I was getting my El Ed Certification. I haven't read any of the previous books in the series, which wasn't much of a problem, when reading this one, except for one thing. I couldn't figure why the school is called Dragon Slayer's Academy, when the dragon in the book is so nice.
The plot is that there is going to be Parent's Day at the academy, which has all the student's worried, because surely nobody's parents could be more embarassing than their own? To add to that stress, they find out that they are going to be putting on a play for their parents, and nobody is happy with the role they were assigned.
This series seems like Harry Potter for a younger reader, who would like Harry Potter better if it was less dark, and had more humor. It takes place in "ye olden days" and seems to be more intended for boys.

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Sydney

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November 15, 2013

its about parent's day is coming up at DSA and Wiglaf thinks its going to be horrible because his dad tells bad jokes and his mother makes really bad cabbage soup and they have to do a awful play when it is parent's day and his father and mother came he was sure that they would embarrass him right away and they did and Angus's aunt did not invite his mother because she was bossy to her so when she showed up even though she was not invited she made Lobelia take off Angus's princess costume and Erica found out that she was going to PRINCESS Prep school but then she volunteered to be the princess and at the end of the play her mother changed her mind and said she didn't have to go to the princess school.

TLC Nielsen

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August 17, 2009

I enjoyed this quirky take on Back-to-School night at DSA. Of course Schoolmaster Mordred makes the most of any money-making opportunity in the process and so the fun begins! The student play includes Angus as the princess, Wiglaf in the lead role and ....Worm?

Dean Burson

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January 13, 2015

Please read(ith , as brotherdave would say) this book

This is an excellent book. When you think that the worst is at hand, the best is beginning. Take it from me, this book is the best.

Kirsten Murphy

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June 21, 2008

The Dragon Slayers' Academy is a fun series. I laughed all the way through this one as I imagined the dread and horror that can come with any parent visit to school!

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August 17, 2010

Brian LOVED this one!

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June 3, 2012

The students parents are invited to the school play so the school headmaster can see how good the students are doing and he can ask for more money from them. J.R.

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