The First Skyrider (Book 1, Callenlas Chronicles)

“What is everyone’s wrong about dragons? What if dragons can be ... trained?” Farm-boy Cairn can hardly believe it when he is chosen to train as a rider for the Star-King Elior. Far from home in the mountains, where dragons lurk and war threatens, Cairn strives to become a great rider of Callenlas. Does he have what it takes after all? And what is his friend Arunae hiding?