Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Academy: Tourney of Terror

by Madeleine Roux, Tim Probert (Illustrator)

Overview

From New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux and acclaimed artist Tim Probert comes the second installment in the original Dungeons & Dragons middle grade series!

In the second installment of the Dungeon & Dragons middle grade series, something BIG has come knocking on the gates of Dungeon Academy! The undefeated Waterdeep Dragons have arrived for the Tourney of Terror games, which happens every fifty years and features every monster’s favorite sport: Goreball!

The Dungeon Academy Flumphs are outnumbered, outsized, and outmonstered! But our hero, Zelli Stormclash (a forbidden human, secretly disguised as a minotaur), is no stranger to impossible odds. Just a few weeks ago, Zelli and her crew, the Danger Club, came face-to-face with a maniacal necromancer and his army of undead! 

If this wasn’t enough to raise scales Zelli’s reoccurring nightmare of a dark entity annihilating her world may be more than just a bad dream. Something sinister is lurking in the halls of the academy, and only Zelli seems to notice. But when Zelli uncovers a dark past hidden beneath Dungeon Academy, she unlocks something that will concern everyone at school, every dragon at Waterdeep, and everything within the Forgotten Realms.

Get ready for humor, heart, magic, and adventure as middle graders and beyond learn to embrace who they are, accept others' differences, and discover the hidden secrets that dwell deep within themselves, and within Dungeon Academy!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063039155
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Series:	Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Academy
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	904,801
File size:	66 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Madeleine Roux is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Asylum series, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. She is also the author of the House of Furies series and several titles for adults, including Salvaged and Reclaimed. She has made contributions to Star Wars, World of Warcraft, and Dungeons & Dragons. Madeleine lives in Seattle, Washington, with her partner and beloved pups.

Tim Probert is an author and illustrator whose work is made of equal parts wonder, magic, and adventure, with a dose of monsters and the occasional dinosaur. In addition to making books, he is an art director at Aardman Nathan Love, working on projects for Nickelodeon, Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola, Candy Crush, and more. Tim lives in New York City with his wife and two cats. 

Editorial Reviews

The action delivers on epic battles (especially against skeletal foes), and the storyline gives the characters real stakes and costs along with solid twists, all fitting seamlessly into the humorous Dungeons & Dragons setting. — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-08-31
The Danger Club faces a dangerous plot during a sports tournament in this sequel.

After the events of No Humans Allowed! (2021), Zelli’s dreams are plagued by cryptic nightmares sent by the defeated necromancer, Lord Carrion, held captive in the Dungeon Academy detention room. While the adults, including secretly human Zelli’s adoptive minotaur mothers, tell her to leave it to the grown-ups, she’s not convinced they’re doing enough. She enlists the Danger Club to help research Lord Carrion’s clues. But then the school’s thrown into chaos, hosting the Waterdeep Dragons for the Tourney of Terror, a monstrous sporting event. Aside from the sports rivalry, there’s interspecies tension between the dragons and the monsters. Investigating portals while everyone’s distracted, black-haired Zelli discovers a dragon who’s actually a human boy. From their shared secret knowledge of each other’s identities, Zelli forms a bond with blond Tavian (in a storyline handled with all the subtlety of a brick to the face), and soon he’s ignoring the dragons’ snobbery to join the Danger Club’s investigation. Though the themes are heavy-handed at times, the action delivers on epic battles (especially against skeletal foes), and the storyline gives the characters real stakes and costs along with solid twists, all fitting seamlessly into the humorous Dungeons & Dragons setting. Final art not seen.

Readers will want to level up quickly to tackle the cliffhanger ending. (Fantasy. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews