History Literature / DragonSlayersAcademy

* BlackSheep: Wiglaf. Justified in the final book when [[spoiler: it turns out he was accidentally SwitchedAtBirth with his family's real son. Wiglaf is actually ''royalty'']].

%%* ThreeAmigos: Wiglaf, Angus, and Erica.

* BalefulPolymorph: In ''Danger! Wizard at Work!'', Zelnoc turns the main characters into dragons.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Characters from [[KingArthur the Arthurian mythos]] are featured in some of the books.

* AdultsAreUseless
* AfraidOfBlood: Wiglaf.

* BadassPrincess: Erica.

* BigEater: Angus.

* CoolOldLady: Angus's aunt (and Mordred's sister), Lady Lobelia.

* DeanBitterman: Mordred.
* TheDungAges

* FantasticRacism: Goes both ways with humans and dragons.
* IntellectualAnimal: Daisy.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mordred.
* KidHero: The entire point of DSA is to create these.

* MoneyFetish: Mordred will do pretty much anything to get his hands on some gold.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seetha.
* NonHumanSidekick: Daisy.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Definitely on the silly end of the scale.
* SweetPollyOliver: Erica, until Mordred turns DSA into a co-ed school ([[MoneyDearBoy because more students = more money]]).
* TalkingAnimal: Parodied with Daisy, who can only speak Pig Latin.
* ThreeAmigos: Wiglaf, Angus, and Erica.
* UpliftedAnimal: Daisy.

* RedHeadedHero: Wiglaf.

* {{Crossover}}: ''Countdown to the Year 1000'' is a crossover with ''TheZackFiles''.

** Erica's parents are named [[{{Franchise/Barbie}} Queen Barb and King Ken]].

** Erica's aunt and uncle are [[TheSimpsons King Homer and Queen Marge]]

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.

** Erica's parents are named [[{{Barbie}} Queen Barb and King Ken]].

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Zelnoc ''never'' pronounces Wiglaf's name correctly.

* BlackSheep: Wiglaf. Justified in the final book when [[spoiler: it turns he was accidentally SwitchedAtBirth with his family's real son. Wiglaf is actually ''royalty'']].

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]], and [[{{Jerkass}} the headmaster]] cares more about gold than the welfare of his students (and on top of all that, 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.

* [[http://www.katemcmullan.com/DragonSlayersAcademy/graduationDay.htm According to the author's website]], the final book will come out sometime in Spring 2012.

* BlackSheep: Wiglaf.
** Justified in the final book when [[spoiler: it turns he was accidentally switched at birth with his family's real son. Wiglaf is actually ''royalty''.]]

** Justified in the final book when [[spoiler: it turns he was accidentally switched at birth with his family's real son. Wiglaf is actually ''royalty''.

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]], and [[{{Jerkass}} the headmaster]] cares more about gold than the welfare of his students (not to mention 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.