If you like adventure you will want to read this book. How to Speak Dragonese is a chapter book that takes you back to the 1800's. In the story two friends get kidnapped by a Roman ship. The rest of the Vikings go out to find the long lost boys. The boys get lost when they raid the wrong ship. The main characters are Fishlegs, Hiccup, Toothless, Hair, and Hiccups father. Cressida Cowell makes you feel like you are there too.