Title: dark fire

1. Title: dark fire author: Chris d’lacey Date/year published: 2009 Genre: fantasy

2. SETTING • The story takes place at a two story house where a little boy named David lived. The neighborhood appeared to be normal. The children were outside playing while their parents were washing cars and cleaning up their front yards.

3. CHARACTORS • David is a loud and nice person. He also a lot travels to. David has long black hair and has blue eyes. He is about 15 years old and 5’3”. • Lucy is David's best friend. Lucy is a very lovable person. Now that David’s in Antarctica, Lucy has been writing him letters and David has been writing back. Lucy is about 16 years old with brown hair her height is about 5’2”.

4. CHARACTERS (cont.) • Liz is Lucy's mom and David lives with them. Liz is a very protective mother, because she wont let Lucy do anything without her supervision. Liz is about 40 years old and about 6’5”. Her hair is like a dirty blond color. • Gwendolen and Gwinlanna are both funny dragons. They always joke about stuff like how Liz drives. Gwendolen is the guard dragon and Gwinlanna is the cleaning dragon. They both are very scaly and long. Gwendolen is about 3-5 feet long and Gwinlanna is about 2-4 feet long..

5. Characters (cont.) • Arnold is the brains of the pack. He knows more about dragons than Liz or Lucy. Arnold has brown blondish hair and about 5’3”. He is also the wise cracker of the bunch. • Gadzooks is David's dragon. He is the guard and the writing dragon. dragon unlike Gwendolen and Gwinlanna. Gadzooks is a living dragon made out of clay. Gadzooks is really smart and long. Like I told you before Gadzooks is the smart dragon. He is about 7-8 feet long.

6. PLOT- CONFLICT • Gadzooks and David have to stop an evil mastermind from taking over the whole world. Unless David and Gadzooks stop her the world will plunge into a dark fire.

7. PLOT- RESOLUTION • Gadzooks stops her, but is badly hurt from her minions breathing fire at him. But Gadzooks is almost dying so David has to take him back to Liz quick.

8. YOUR OPINION • I thought this book was cool because it is about dragons. I like dragons a lot because they breath fire and fly. They are really tough and scaly.

9. ABOUT THE AUTHOR • 1. he read lots of books about dragons. • 2. he seen lots of drawings of drawings of dragons. • 3. he seen lots of costumes of dragons. • 4. he seen lots of dragon movies. • 5. he likes dragons a whole lot.

10. 5 test questions 1. What inspired you to write about dragons? 2. Why do you like dragons so much? 3. How do you write so many pages in the 5 books you wrote without stopping? 4. What inspired you to become an author? 5. What tasks did you have to go through to become an author.

11. SUMARRY • A dark evil is rising and David and Gadzooks have to get up and stop it. If they don’t it will be the end of humanity as we know it. If they don’t we will all die. Then the world will end. Can David and Gadzooks stop her before it is to late!