The Dragon King (adventure book)

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The Dragon King
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Author Trevor Baxendale
Series Doctor Who book:
Decide Your Destiny
Release number
11
SubjectFeaturing:
Tenth Doctor
Publisher BBC Books
Publication date
6 March 2008
Pages100+
ISBN 978-1-40590-402-5
Preceded by Second Skin  
Followed by The Horror of Howling Hill  

The Dragon King is a BBC Books story adventure book written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Tenth Doctor.

This is part of the Decide Your Destiny series which makes you choose what happens in the books.

Plot

Your journey takes you to the planet Elandeffn, where people live side by side with dragons. But hunters from a neighbouring planet are attacking... Can you restore peace to these two clashing worlds?

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