Due: 5/16

The Fire Within', Book 2: Icefire
By Chris d'Lacey

David Rain a long time tenant of the Pennykettle household has become more evolved in the Pennykettle family. In doing so he also got wrapped up in the business of dragons which is exactly what Liz Pennykettle does. She makes and believes stone dragons.

There are many myths about dragons, Liz and her daughter Lucy believe that the reason no one has proved the existence of dragons is because there are none left. Also the ones that have died off leave no remains so their bodies just decompose into clay. And, that all clay comes from dragons. Liz sculpts dragons from clay, those dragons move in the mind of whomever named them or is their master. The dragons can do special things depending on how they are made.

David is still going to school though. Lately he has been given the opportunity to travel to the arctic to study poler bears and other arctic animals. The teacher that is giving him the opportunity, I think, he's up to no good. Every student is assigned the task of writing an essay, each student has a different topic to write about. The best essay wins a free trip to the arctic to study, all the others must pay for their trip. David's topic is dragons, he has to write 2000 words about the subject. But I think that the professor is too curious to be .

So now David is trying to squeeze as much information about dragons out of Liz as possible. As he really needs the scholarship. He's learned that dragons like high cold places, and during his quest he's been having weird feelings and seeing things. Like tracks in the snow and stuff outside the window.

I predict that David will win the scholarship on the expedition (because he's the main character) and on the trip he'll find the real last dragon. A dragon of the ice.