The Fire Within

by Chris D'Lacey

When David become a tenant of Lucy, and her mother Liz, what he gets is NOT what he had in mind. For example, he knows that dragons aren't real, so how is it that he sees Liz and Lucy treating clay dragone as real ones, and he is sure it is his imagination when he sees the dragons moving about the house without being moved. Then, who is this Conker that Lucy speaks of? Why does she look for him and why is Liz annoyed that Lucy hunts for him?

How does Liz kill her dragons, with nothing in the killing room but other clay dragons, and how is it that his own present, his clay dragon named Gadzooks, changes his facial expressions? He is made of clay afterall. And here is the most important, and strangest question of all: How is it, that the story he writes for Lucy's birthday present using Gadzooks as a muse actually come s true?! Can they use the ending of the story to save Conker's life, before the neighbor kills him?

I can't tell you. You have to read the book.

Annie J