Friday, September 4, 2009

Icefire by Chris D'Lacey. Genre: Fantasy. Pages read: 192

This book is the book that comes after The Fire Within. David has been trying to find a publisher for the story he wrote for Lucy but he can't. Also, Lucy made a wishing dragon for David. She got to have one wish since she made it, and she wished for snow. Dragons like snow but no one knows why. A little while later, it actually started to snow! At David's college, a strange professor from the north was giving different essays to all the students but since David was late so he got an essay about dragons. Apparently, someone knew he had a dragon and the whole school found out. The professor's name was Dr. Bergstrom and he gave him a narwhal tusk with Inuit carvings to shake for good luck. When he shook it, Gadzooks popped into his head and wrote Lorel. David didn't tell the professor and went home. As soon as he left, Dr. Bergstrom told something to follow his auma and a bear popped out of nowhere and left. Liz said that auma is an ancient word for a special kind of fire that is inside everyone. Later that night, a college student that has a crush on David named Samantha, Zanna for short, said that she can help him by lending him a book about dragons in exchange for them spending time together. He agreed since he would do anything to win the essay competition and a free trip to the Arctic (that was the prize for winning the competition). On Sunday while Liz and Lucy were away, Zanna came over. She is very Gothic so she came dressed mostly in black. They talked for a bit and then she wanted to go to the Dragon's Den, Liz's studio where she makes the dragons. She made David wish that he knew the secret to the most special fire tear ever: Gawain's fire tear. Gawain was the last of the dragons ever to live. She also touched a bronze colored egg that she somehow made glow. When she was about to leave, an Aunty Gwyneth came. She took David's room so he had to stay at Henry Bacon's house. But before he left for there, he overheard Aunty Gwyneth telling Liz that the egg was now hers and it might be the next Gawain. When she started to move toward where David was, he ran upstairs. Then he overheard her in his room talking to her special potion dragon, Gretel, saying that they were going to take Gadzooks. David ran to the Dragon's Den, grabbed Gadzooks, and ran to Mr. Bacon's house

I think that Aunty Gwyneth is up to something. I also think that David and Mr. Bacon won't get along very well. Aunty Gwyneth's special dragon is pretty devious too.

The word I chose was indigence. It's just the word I chose. Indigence means a state of extreme poverty or destitution. For example, "their indigence appalled him." I got the definition and the example on worddefinition.com.

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