The Luck And The Light

Debut novel. YA fantasy adventure. Klem and Todd are nearly fourteen when the Mangorian army destroys everything they know. Alone in an ancient forest, they're found by the Yukoya — luminous, mouthless beings who sleep inside trees — and given a task that seems impossible: retrieve a green crystal from beneath a dragon's egg on a mountain nobody can see.

With an unpredictable wizard, a silver marsh-dribbler called Dorky, and a hooded Yukoya seeing the world for the first time, they travel underground through a golden city, sail into a sea vortex in a turtle shell, and face a Sisterhood who have caged the dragon they claim to worship.

Comic, warm, and unflinching: Book One of The World Builders.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6LXGTPT