As I read The Fire Within, I asked myself - what does she find so appealing, despite presumption, this book isn’t a dragon adventure/action book. I have to preface this by saying it’s been a long time since I’ve read a young adult book … probably since the Nancy Drew days back in the early 1980s. She, when I said that I’d like to review some YA books for this blog, urged me to start with this book which she believes to be just about the best thing ever written. When she was a baby, I read to her every night, and she loved the Suess books, etc., but this is the first series that she has read with abandon. My 10-year-old daughter has always been kind of a mind reader. I have heard that there’s no such thing as a kid who hates books, simply a kid who hasn’t found the right book. Inspired by the dragon, David begins to write a story for Lucy finding that what he writes seems to happen. Liz and her daughter make odd clay dragons that they sell, and Lucy makes a special dragon for David. The Fire Within by Chris D’Lacey is the first book of a young adult series, David Rain, a 20-year-old college student, rents a room from Liz Pennykettle and her 10-year-old daughter, Lucy.
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