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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Be A Pirate: Book 2

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How to Train Your Dragon: How To Be A Pirate: Book 2 by Cressida Cowell

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By Cressida Cowell

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Read the HILARIOUS books that inspired the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films!

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup’s father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne – but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.

When a huge, six-and-a-half-foot floating coffin with the words BEWARE! DO NOT OPEN THIS COFFIN arrives, can you guess what happens next?

The Quest to discover the treasure of Hiccup’s ancestors begins and Hiccup needs to find it before Alvin the Treacherous gets his hands on it. But when a dragon called the Monstrous Strangulator is thrown into the mix, things are about to get seriously SCARY.

How to Train Your Dragon is a major award-winning DreamWorks film series. There is also a new live action movie due to be released in 2025. The TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.

Reviews

19 Feb 2025

I love the book. It has a lot of funny scenes personally I think hiccup was my favourite character because of his smart plan at the end.
I think that Alvin’s plan was noticeable as soon as the hooglins open the coffin.
Grimard the ghastly booby traps were incredible.
I think the funny way the author interrupted the Vikings suited them well.
I recommend this book to everyone!

31 Jan 2025

I enjoyed how adventurous it was, and that snoutface did not find the treasure. Fish legs and hiccup did and they kept it a secret!

02 Jan 2025

I wouldn't really recommend it because it's quite scary.

04 Sep 2024

I loved it.

03 Sep 2024

I loved it when they got stuck in the cabin and faced the strangulator!

02 Sep 2024

It was very funny and told you a bit about the vikings.

28 Aug 2024

I particularly liked the part where the book teaches you how to do some sword fighting.

12 Aug 2024

Another funny storyline. Alvin the Treacherous made a great villain.

01 Aug 2024

Hiccup is set a pirate-training programme. Outcasts destroy and sink his ship. Underwater, Hiccup and his friend find a secret treasure cavern and nearly get poisoned by a Strangulator'.

23 Jul 2024

As good as the first

17 Jul 2024

I liked it because the people shouted!

08 Jul 2024

I love the mystery of the quest that Hiccup is on even though he doesn't know it. The character 'Alvin the Treacherous' is thought of very well because he was treacherous from the beginning.
The book was informative of the native history of Vikings, fiction of not. I'd recommend in to anyone of reading age.

30 Jun 2024

I think it is hillarious when Toothless poos in Alvin's helmet and the Strangulator is one of my faverout parts!

28 Jun 2024

I liked the part when Hiccup discovers he is left handed and, in future, will be a master sword-fighter.

18 May 2024

Just brilliant, love this series… waiting for the next one.. highly recommend.

02 May 2024

I like it because it’s about how Hiccup proves he is a good Viking

31 Jan 2024

Funny

13 Jan 2024

i loved the book. it inspired me. eve if your different you can still be great . as a hero is a hero and a hero is forever

07 Jan 2024

My favourite Character is Hiccup and Snotlout.
Would recommend this book.

30 Dec 2023

I think every will love this book because it is fascinating and the story in this book is amazing.

29 Dec 2023

It was an adventure with dragons in it. I really like hero's so I enjoyed this one a lot and need to start on Book 3

14 Sep 2023

I really love this series and liked all the character names.

03 Sep 2023

I loved this book, it is full of adventure and training to be a pirate. My favourite characters in this book are toothless and hiccup because they are the heroes of this story and always know what to do. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes funny dragons, pirates that want gleaming gold or heroes that need to keep a secret.

31 Aug 2023

I have completed reading this book. It is nice.

28 Aug 2023

I loved the drama in this and even though I got it from a carboot it is in great addition and a challenge to read.I read this in a hole day!

18 Aug 2023

I really enjoyed this second book in the How to Train Your Dragon Series.
I thought it was epic!

15 Aug 2023

The person I like in this book is Hiccup who is unselfish eventhough his tribe was greedy. I would recommend this book to adventure readers.

01 Aug 2023

mystery just around the corner in this book

29 Jul 2023

Fun book but took a day to read.

27 Jul 2023

What a funny story.I am happy that Hiccup got what was rightfully his.

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