Post Atomic USA -- Kid & mutant reptiles ??

[jmd227]

Remember my first SF story about US post atomic with boy (Name starts with K) tangle with reptile mutant on quest -- ring any bells??

 

[sueelleker]

Remember my first SF story about US post atomic with boy (Name starts with K) tangle with reptile mutant on quest -- ring any bells??

Star Man's Son by Andre Norton?

 

[jmd227]

Star Man's Son by Andre Norton?

Thanks, Pretty close - but the one I am on about I read in the mid-1950's

 

[northernexposure]

Sterling Lanier wrote a couple of books about Heiro - doesn't start with a K - but they weren't written in the 1950s.

 

[otistdog]

What was the quest?

 

[sueelleker]

Thanks, Pretty close - but the one I am on about I read in the mid-1950's

It was first published in 1952

 

[dwndrgn]

Not the right answer but made me think of Timothy Zahn's Dragonback series.