A Wreck of Dragons — Elaine Isaak

Teens and their giant robots search for a new home for mankind, but the planet they discover belongs to the dragons.Two hundred years after the Climate Wars left Earth uninhabitable, Johari and his giant robot companion lead a squad of scouts on a quest for a new Goldilocks planet to settle the remnants of the human race.When one of the scouts and his bot go down in a hostile wilderness, Johari's fight to save them reveals complex behavior in the dragon-like dominant species. The scout team fragments as Johari strives to rescue his friends and discover the truth about the aliens.If he's right, mankind will lose its best hope for a home - or sacrifice its own humanity.