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Dragonlinks was a book that Paul Collins wrote, and is book one of The Jelindel Chronicles. Also the book was published by Penguin Books Australia in 2002 and the ISBN number is 0 14 131425 7 and this story is about a girl called Jelindel who is a scholar as she likes to read books on various subjects, but while she is outside looking at the stars her family is attacked and killed by lindraks and her home is burnt down. She then quickly realizes that she had to change her identity and go into hiding.

And so she now uses a boys name which is Jaelin and Jelindel quickly finds work as a scribe. But she also befriends a boy named Zimak and he teaches Jaelin how to fight while “he” teaches Zimak how to read and write. Then one day two people come to their town and one of them gives Zimak a message to pass on and being curious he reads their letters and later on he tells Jaelin about what he was able to understand. Then Jaelin wanted to see one of the people that gave a message but the person was a mage and Zimak ends up being magically trapped by him.

Jaelin then does everything he can think of to help Zimak and Jaelin succeeds by cutting the mage’s head off but then Jaelin and Zimak get caught up in this adventure about a mailshirt that is very powerful as it absorbs information on skills but the mailshirt isn’t whole yet and that is what Jaelin, Zimak, and Daretor set out to do. But other people also want this particular mailshirt too.