Dragon's Bait  Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde is a fantasy novel for young readers that was published in 2003. The  Harcourt/Magic Carpet Books copies show the copyright as 1992. Alys has been falsely accused of witchcraft and is about to be sacrificed to a dragon. Then, Selendrile, a LeGuinian dragon that can assume a human form, offers to help her retaliate. Along the way to revenge against her inquisitor, Alys and Selendrile find a complicated path. This adventure looks at issues of revenge, heroism, and more with a splash of irony.