The Fire Within (the Last Dragon Chronicles #1): Volume 1

by Chris d'Lacey

Book Overview

Best-selling author, Chris d'Lacey, brings us a magical story about mysterious hand crafted clay dragons who have unusual powers.

Best-selling author Chris d'Lacey brings us a magical story about mysterious hand crafted clay dragons who have unusual powers.When David moves in with Liz and Lucy, he discovers a collection of hand crafted, clay dragons that comes to life and has magical powers. David's personalized dragon, Gadzooks, can forecast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439672449
• ISBN13: 9780439672443
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

It's not what you might think.

I thought this would be about dragons but that was probably only about 10% of the story. The majority of this book was a story about squirrels and the dragons only came up every once in awhile. The story was rather quick and easy to read so I'll give it that, but the title and cover are a little misleading, so it might not be entirely what you expect. Maybe it gets better as you go through the series, I don't know, but I'm not impressed enough to read the second one.

One of The best books ever

This is one of the best books I've ever read I picked it up one day at a thrift store thought the cover was cool and I like dragons had no idea how much I was going to like this book I'm 20 and recommend it to anyway no matter what age u will love it it's funny, exciting, sad, joyful, and all around good

I couldn't put it down!!!!!!!!

The Fire Within was a great book. I am an avid reader and this is tops on my favorites list. I liked how the dragons came to life if you believed they were real. This is a fantastic book about dragons, that everyone will love. I can't wait to read the next book. Austin age 9

THIS BOOK IS WICKED AWESOME!!!!

I loved this book.Well,it is full of sadness,happyness,and of course DRAGONS!!!!!This book is for all fans of Eragon,Eldest and Dragon Rider.I am working to finesh ICE FIRE the second book.(Sneaky hent-the third book is FIRE STAR and the fourth book is THE FIRE ETERNAIL).Mistique,Dragon Lady,age 9.

Great book, no violence or bad language

I pre-read this book for my 5- and 7-year old sons. They love dragons, but many of the dragon books and movies are a bit too violent in my opinion. I finished the book in two days because I couldn't put it down. I loved the squirrel plot and the mysterious clay dragons. I just bought the next two books in the series - Icefire and Firestar. I hope they are as good as the first.

This was GREAT!

I read review books for our school library. Some are okay, some are horrible, and then sometimes I get to read something STUPENDOUS....That was "The Fire Within". I LOVED the dragons, the squirrel part was touching, looking into the mind of a 20 year old boy was revealing....and the best part? Well, there is already Book 2 and Book 3 will be out in a couple of weeks! Hurray! My husband reads to our 3 girls each night, we have enjoyed the Harry Potter series, the Rowan books, Gregor and his adventures in the Underlands....and NOW we'll start on Chris d'Lacey's DRAGONS!!!! Keep 'em coming Chris.....

Joon's Book Review of the awesome book, "The Fire Within"

This is my Book review of a book called "The Fire Within" by Chris D' Lacey This book is a five star action packed, lovable, and enjoyable book. This book is about a 20 year old college student named David. He moves in a mysteriously weird house, with an owner named Elizabeth. He moves in because college is too far away from his hometown and he need to stay somewhere until he passes college. He has to live with a cat named Bonnington, a 10 year old girl named Lucy, and a woman named Elizabeth. He notices this family is getting weirder and weirder everyday, all they talk about is dragons and they have a room which he where Elizabeth makes her clay dragons that doesn't have a kiln which David is forbidden to go inside. One day when David gets his own clay dragon, it inspires him to write a story; mysteriously, the events in the story become real, even the clay dragons may come to real life! When his dragon is sad and his dragon is in danger of dying, David must master the fire within, not only with his hands, but with his heart. This book is the best book I have ever read in my life! This has great description and it is very imaginative. Chris D' Lacey has written the sequel to this book, it is called Icefire. He has also written Beverly Cleary books and some other great books. Overall all think this book is the best book he has ever written, but I am going to wait until I get Icefire to assure it is the best book he has ever written. I think this book is a fantasy related book because it has dragons and all kinds of wondrous things, and because this book is a fantasy book it's what makes The Fire Within an awesome book! So that is my book review about "The Fire Within, and if you love this book you should check out the sequel "Icefire. Joon Hyong Cho