Dragon Keeper, Garden of the Purple Dragon, Dragon Moon by Carole Wilkinson

This is a really good series about a slave girl named Ping (meaning duckweed) that lives in China and is neglected by her master. Her master was keeping two dragons in a deep pit and Ping had to look after them. One day one of them suddenly died and Ping's life was changed. She went down to clean out the pit and while she was down there, she found the dragon stone. She could feel feelings coming out of it the dragon asked her to help him take it to the ocean because she believed him that if they drank from it, they would be healed. But the dragon is actually lying about that, so she traveled across China for nothing, but it was actually something. Danzi the dragon flew her over onto an island and while she was in the air, she dropped the stone. They flew down to the island to grab it, but it was cracked. Inside was a baby dragon. There were tons of adventures in these books. Out of the three books, I would say my favorite was the first, and second and third. I finished them all in a couple of days. Actually, I had to wait for the third one to get published and then for my library to get it before I could read it, but I was so excited when my mom brought it home for me! I exploded!