After everything that happened at Kuiper’s Academy, Anequs didn’t just survive, she finished her first year with honors even though so many people expected her to fail. Now she’s finally heading home for the summer with Kasaqua and Theod, the only other native student at the Academy.

But being “the girl with the dragon” doesn’t stay at school. Because of Anequs’s notoriety, Masquapaug now has an Anglish presence for the first time ever, and it poisons what should have been a break. Anequs can’t ignore it, and she won’t pretend it’s fine.

Anequs believes her people have the right to govern themselves and live as they always have, without the weight of Anglish rules and expectations. She’s ready to stand up for that, even if it risks igniting something far bigger than herself.

To Ride a Rising Storm is a smart, high-stakes sequel that deepens the world and pushes Anequs’s fight for her people into dangerous new territory.

On the island of Masquapaug, dragons have been gone for generations, until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. For her people, it feels like the return of something ancient and powerful. For the Anglish authorities who rule her homeland, it is something that must be regulated, studied, and controlled.

Reluctantly sent to a mainland dragon academy, Anequs steps into a world that was never built for her. She must master unfamiliar lessons, navigate classmates who question her place, and protect her dragon from those who believe they know the “right” way to raise it. Anequs is determined to succeed, but she refuses to give up who she is to do it.

Blending dragon-school adventure with sharp questions of culture, history, and power, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath launched the Nampeshiweisit series and won the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction.