Line #28 Literature/DragonSlayersAcademy


1	So you're a medieval peasant boy living a [[TheDungAges typical medieval peasant life]], until one day a traveling minstrel tells you that you're destined to become a hero. What do you do? Enroll at a school for dragon slayers, of course! It's not all it's cracked up to be, though; the food is terrible, the teachers are [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} kind of weird]], [[{{Jerkass}} the headmaster]] cares more about gold than the welfare of his students, and on top of all that, there's the [[RecurringCharacter frequent encounters]] with a wizard who [[GoneHorriblyWrong can't do anything right]]. This is the premise of ''Dragon Slayers' Academy'', a series of [[ChildrensLiterature children's books]] by [=Kate McMullan=]. The series chronicles the strange (and occasionally downright improbable) adventures of Wiglaf, a student at the eponymous Dragon Slayers' Academy.
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3	[[folder:List of books in the series]]
4	* ''The New Kid at School''
5	* ''Revenge of the Dragon Lady''
6	* ''Class Trip to the Cave of Doom''
7	* ''A Wedding for Wiglaf?''
8	* ''Knight for a Day''
9	* ''Sir Lancelot, Where Are You?''
10	* ''Wheel of Misfortune''
11	* ''Countdown to the Year 1000''
12	* ''97 Ways to Train a Dragon''
13	* ''Help! It's Parents Day at DSA''
14	* ''Danger! Wizard at Work!''
15	* ''The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone''
16	* ''Beware! It's Friday the 13th''
17	* ''Pig Latin -- Not Just for Pigs!''
18	* ''Double Dragon Trouble''
19	* ''World's Oldest Living Dragon''
20	* ''Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka''
21	* ''Never Trust a Troll!''
22	* ''Little Giant -- Big Trouble''
23	* ''School's Out... Forever!''
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26	!!These books provide examples of:
27	* AccidentalMisnaming: Zelnoc ''never'' pronounces Wiglaf's name correctly.
28	%%* AdultsAreUseless
29	%%* AfraidOfBlood: Wiglaf.
30	* AnachronismStew: There's a lot of this, in case the fact that the books are set in a school during the medieval period didn't tip you off.
31	%%* BigEater: Angus.
32	%%* CoolOldLady: Angus's aunt (and Mordred's sister), Lady Lobelia.
33	* {{Crossover}}: ''Countdown to the Year 1000'' is a crossover with ''Series/TheZackFiles''.
34	%%* DeanBitterman: Mordred.
35	%%* TheDungAges
36	* ExtranormalInstitute: Aside from the Dragon Slayers' Academy itself, there's also the ''other'' DSA, the Dragon ''Slackers''' Academy ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a school for dragons who are also slackers]]).
37	%%* FantasticRacism: Goes both ways with humans and dragons.
38	* ForcedTransformation: In ''Danger! Wizard at Work!'', Zelnoc turns the main characters into dragons.
39	%%* IntellectualAnimal: Daisy.
40	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Mordred.
41	* KidHero: The entire point of DSA is to create kids who can become heroes capable of slaying dragons.
42	* MassiveNumberedSiblings:
43	** Wiglaf has twelve of them.
44	** Then there's Seetha, who has ''3684'' children. [[ExaggeratedTrope They don't call her "the Mother of All Dragons" for nothing!]]
45	* MoneyFetish: Mordred will do anything to get his hands on some gold.
46	* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seetha has ''3684'' children.
47	%%* NonHumanSidekick: Daisy.
48	* OneGenderSchool: DSA starts out as an all-boys' school, which is why Erica [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a boy]] so she can attend. This is eventually subverted after it becomes a co-ed school (purely so Mordred can make more money from more students attending), which allows Erica to be open about her gender.
49	* OnlySaneMan: DSA's librarian, Brother Dave is one of the very few adult characters who isn't TheDitz, a {{Jerkass}}, incompetent, or all three.
50	* PigLatin: Daisy (who is an actual pig) speaks Pig Latin because Zelnoc messed up a spell that was meant to turn her into a TalkingAnimal. In ''Pig Latin -- Not Just for Pigs!'', King Ken also ends up speaking Pig Latin after yet another messed-up spell, courtesy of Zelnoc.
51	* PublicDomainCharacter: Characters from [[Myth/ArthurianLegend the Arthurian mythos]] are featured in some of the books.
52	* {{Revenge}}: In ''Revenge of the Dragon Lady'', Seetha comes after Wiglaf for killing one of her sons ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the title]]).
53	* ShoutOut:
54	** Erica's parents are [[{{Franchise/Barbie}} Queen Barb and King Ken]].
55	** Erica's aunt and uncle are [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons King Homer and Queen Marge]].
56	** Wiglaf is most likely named after a character from ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''.
57	* TheSixthRanger: Technically the ''fourth'' ranger -- Janice, who joins the PowerTrio after DSA starts accepting female students.
58	%%* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Definitely on the silly end of the scale.
59	* SweetPollyOliver: Erica pretends to be a guy until Mordred turns DSA into a co-ed school ([[MoneyDearBoy because more students = more money]]).
60	%%* TalkingAnimal: Parodied with Daisy, who can only speak Pig Latin.
61	%%* UpliftedAnimal: Daisy.
62	* WeaksauceWeakness: Every dragon has a secret weakness, and some of them are ''very'' weak. For example, Gorzil's is [[spoiler:bad jokes]] and Seetha's is [[spoiler:bathing]].

Context Literature / DragonSlayersAcademy