Icefire

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name = Icefire
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author = Chris d'Lacey
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country = United States
language = English
series = The Fire Within series
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genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Scholastic Press
release_date = October 1, 2003
media_type = Print (Paperback), (Hardback)
pages = 421
isbn = ISBN 9-780-43967246-7
preceded_by = The Fire Within
followed_by = Fire Star

"Icefire" is a 2003 novel by an English author, Chris d'Lacey. It is the sequel to his 2001 novel "The Fire Within", and is followed by "Fire Star" and "The Fire Eternal", which came out in September 2007 (UK) and on the July 1, 2008 (US). The book was shortlisted for an Angus Book Award in 2006.

Plot summary

The sequel to Chris d'Lacey's bestselling novel, "The Fire Within", "Icefire" continues the story of student, David Rain, and his life in the Pennykettle household.

Life isn't exactly normal lodging at the Pennykettles - not when you're surrounded by hundreds of clay pottery dragons. Fate seems to be dictating an unusual course for David when his university tutor sets him a writing project on the existence - or not - of dragons. The tantalizing prize - a fully-funded research trip to the Arctic - seems just within his grasp.

Characters

Humans

*Elizabeth Pennykettle "(Liz)" - The landlady and the maker of the mysterious clay dragons.

*Lucy Pennykettle - Liz's daughter, an 11-year-old girl that strongly believes in dragons but can be very mischievous. She also loves squirrels and keeps trying to find them. She also can make dragons.

*Suzanna Martindale "(Zanna)" - Zanna is a goth girl college student that falls in love with David and knows a great deal about dragons. She is a descendant of Gwendolen, and a girl with the makings of a sibyl.

*Guinevere - Guinevere caught Gawain's fire tear and she is from ages long past. David learns about her when Liz tells him a story about her.

*Gwendolen "(pronounced Gawendolen)" - Guinevere's child, "fathered" by Gawain the dragon.

*Gwillana - A sibyl who helps Guinevere and conjures Gwendolen for her. Gwillana also bewitches Grockle to become a dragon. She is always trying to bring back the dragons in some devious way.She first appears using the alias 'Aunty Gwyneth'

*Dr. Bergstrom - David's college professor. Has the ability to turn into a polar bear; also known as Thoran (in polar bear form).

*Sophie - David's girlfriend. Who helped Lucy in the first book, (The Fire Within) when they caught a couple of squirrels.

Dragons and Animals

*Gawain - The last real dragon of the world; he is supposedly "dead".

*Grockle - The "son" of Suzanna Martindale and Gawain the dragon, originally intended to be a human boy; bewitched by Gwilanna to become a dragon.

*G'reth - The wishing dragon. Puts David's wish out to the universe.
*Gretel - The potions dragon and servant of Gwillana.

*Gadzooks - David's story writing dragon. They seem to share a powerful connection to the universe. Gadzooks was the first one to discover Lorel presence.

*Grace - Sophie's listening dragon, who plays an important part in this book.

*Gruffen - A guard dragon of the Dragon's Den. David first saw him in a dream (The Fire Within)

*Gwillan - A snuffler dragon, he also enjoys cleaning, and watering plants for liz.

*Spikey - An albino hedgehog.

*Ragnar - one of the legendary polar bears who has fighting scars all over him. He is said to have roared so loud that a tooth came out of his mouth, and he pounded it into the ice and it formed the island called the Tooth of Ragnar.

*Lorel - The Teller of the Ways. Tries to make contact with David to give him information. He is a polar bear.

*Ingavar - great descendant of Ragnar who takes the tooth of Ragnar and fuses with it so he may become the ancestor before him. (In the next book)

*Bonnington - the Pennykettles' cat who inherits a few dragon skills after drinking some of the melted icefire.