Middle Grade: Dragons

 Wings of Fire The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland 

This is the second book in this middle grade dragon series. This focuses on Tsunami, the SeaWing, and we don't have that much time with the other four dragons of destiny because of how much time was spent with Tsunami. She is, in fact, the lost princess and at the beginning it's everything she thought it would be; until it's not. She has a younger sister and she's initially jealous of, but she is able to get a few conversations with her and she realizes that she has no reason to be jealous and they start building a relationship. Her mom, Queen Coral, is super overprotective, and very easily manipulated. Also, someone is killing all of the royal eggs, but only the female ones. The other four dragons of destiny have been sent to a cave; Clay has been chained. Tsunami waits almost two days before going to check on them. She convinces the guards to give her the keys. Queen Blister shows up and she's terrible, and at the end we find out that NightWings want her to be the SandWing Queen and if the dragons of destiny won't agree, well they have a backup plan. Also, we meet Riptide, the son of Webs; he has been working with the Talons of Peace and he lied by omission about it, but he was also kind and helpful so I'm not holding that against him. We find out that Gill, the dragon that Tsunami killed in the pit in the last book, was her father, so Coral can't/won't have any more children. Tsunami takes on the charge of guarding the last remaining female egg and discovers that the statue of Orca is what is doing the killing. Then, there is an attack by the SkyWings and the dragons of destiny get away, with the help of little sister, since they were put in prison. They decide to head to the RainWings so Glory can find her family, and that is the set up for book 3. We also get the epilogue, which tells us about the NightWings treachery. I like this series better when all of the dragons of destiny are together, but it makes sense that each needs their own story, to flesh them out more as characters but to also explain each of the different tribes? races? I would definitely recommend this series to my nephew and niece!