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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

02 Sep 2025

i like all the pirates

31 Aug 2025

My favourite character is Hiccup because he is an awesome sword fighter and he is brave. I learnt that power and greed corrupts.

31 Aug 2025

Toothless is my favourite character because he got Hiccups a sword when he needed it. I learnt that people can change if you give them a chance and that treasure can make people greedy!

28 Aug 2025

I thought it was very interesting and they could get stuck there.

20 Aug 2025

Toothless is funny

18 Aug 2025

It’s to good to describe

10 Aug 2025

Very good full of friendship

05 Aug 2025

It is an awsome book because I like it when Fishlegs goes beserk!

02 Aug 2025

Beware! New dangers await Hiccup and some are not as easy to find! Wink, wink!

04 Jul 2025

Fun to read and interesting

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.

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