Sam, Maddie, and the Mirror Dragon, by first time Pacific Northwest author Elizabeth Flanders, with assistance from veteran New York writer and illustrator Evan Pritchard, is a story in the tradition of young adult fantasy. Its dual 14-year-old protagonists Sam and Maddie, neighbors in a rural town in Washington State, are drawn unexpectedly into The Mother Tree's powerful vortex, and find a portal where they meet SilverLight, a thousands-years-old master dragon, and she begins to teach them Mother Earth's Secrets as no mere mortal could. To train the two teens to become Galactic Guardian-Level Earth-Protectors, SilverLight magically transports them back and forth between the everyday world of school and family and the various Realms of Possibilities that exist in other dimensions. A unique blend of natural and supernatural, this inspirational and highly educational novel provides up-to-date information about the environmental dangers facing young adults today and what they can do to respond as Earth- and Water-Protectors.