The Fire Within

The Fire Within
Chris D'Lacey
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2007
Pages: 352
Reading Level: 9-12
Genre: Fantasy

David is a college student, who moves in with Liz, and her daughter Lucy. Liz makes clay dragons for a living, and she gives one to David as a house-warming gift. Lucy realy like squirrels. She wants to save one squirrel whose eye is missing. She convinces David to help. She also convinces David to write a story about it. While writing his story, he sees his dragon, Gadzooks, writing something. David eventually learns that dragons are real and that Liz is putting a little bit of dragon fire in each clay dragon, causing them to come to live. With the help of Gadzooks, David writes his story (BEFORE it happens), and helps save the squirrel.

I would recommend this book to any children, young adults, or adults. I'm 21 and I loved it :)

I don't see this book causing any problems

My reaction: I thought this was a god book. It tied reality and fantasy together in a very realistc way

My rating: ****