Dragon Keeper Trilogy

The Dragon Keeper Trilogy are a three book series written by Carole Wilkinson. Set in Ancient China, The trilogy consist of Dragon Keeper, Garden of the Purple Dragon, and Dragon Moon, with a small prequel story Dragon Dawn.

The series chronicles the journey of a slave girl named Ping's journey with a wise dragon, named Danzi. Over the course of the story, Ping develops into a strong woman, capable of doing things that she hadn't even dreamed of when she had been a slave.

These books provide examples of:

 * Berserk Button: You'll trigger it if you mess with Ping's friends, and vice versa.
 * Never mention the word "slave" around Ping....ever.
 * Everyone Is Right Handed Plot point in that all Dragon Keepers are left-handed.
 * Fridge Horror:
 * Humans Are Bastards: The reason why Ping and Company have to move around so much.
 * I Have Many Names: Danzi says this pretty much word for word.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: The dragons in the story are Chinese Dragons, as opposed to the Fairy Tale kind.
 * Jerkass: Ping's old master Lan embodies this trope.
 * MacGuffin: Pretty much the Dragon stone
 * Made a Slave: Ping starts as this in the beginning of the story.
 * Meaningful Name: Averted with Ping, who is disappointed to learn that her name means "duckweed". Played straight though with Long Danzi whose name means "Courageous Dragon".
 * The Obi Wan: Danzi during the course of Dragon Keeper.
 * Meaningful Name: Averted with Ping, who is disappointed to learn that her name means "duckweed". Played straight though with Long Danzi whose name means "Courageous Dragon".
 * The Obi Wan: Danzi during the course of Dragon Keeper.