Fire in the Heart

by Liza Ketchum and Liza Ketchum Murrow

Book Overview

When a mysterious letter about her mother's death appears in Molly O'Connor's mailbox, she begins a search that turns her family upside down. Fighting her father's disapproval, Molly enlists the help... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816722617
• ISBN13: 9780816722617
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Troll Communications
• Length: 255 Pages
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 3

Customer Reviews

Terrific read at any age!

I purchased this young adult book after seeing excerpts in the local paper. I am in my twenties and loved it. Even my grandfather thought it was great. Fun fiction set with a historical setting!

Allison's Book Review

Molly finds a letter from Ramon. Molly's family never talks about her deceased mother, Ashley, who died in a car wreck when Molly was just four years old. Kai, Molly's best friend, comes back to Vermont for the summer. Molly visits Grand Nan to ask about her mom. Her grandma, who suffers from Memory loss, cant tell her alot so she sends her to Sadie, Grand Nan's cousin. Kai called Todd, Molly's brother, which made her really jealous. Molly's dad gets angry when she asked him about her mother again. After Molly reads the letter from Ramon who is in California, she tells Kai about the fatal crash in which her mom died also in California. She continues to write back and forth with Ramon. Her father tells her that she was obsessed with archeology. Molly finally gets the nerve to go to California to find more facts about why her mom was in California or why she was with another man at the time. Her father finally softens up and lets her go to California with her step mother, Blair. When they arrive Molly finally gets to meet her pen-pal / crush, Ramon. They stay with Ramon and his family. Molly eventually finds all of the answers she wanted and in the end gets a little romance too. "This book is great its about a fourteen year old girl who wants to know more about her mom." four stars!! maybe five!! -lovely

Fire In the Heart

I really liked this book, it was an exciting book. It kept me interested in it. It's about a girl that tries to find out why her mother died. She goes all the way to Califonia to find out what happened to her. While she is there she finnaly meets the guy she had been writing letters to and talking to on the phone. Read the story to find out what else happens.

Fire in the Heart

This book had a lot of action then I don't know what happened near the end. It sort of fell off a cliff and hit rock bottom pretty fast. I would still recommened it to people who love the uspense of reading a good mystery novel, though. Also if your intrested in gold mining history this book touches on that subject also. All in all it was a good book.