Icefire
core novel 2003 The Last Dragon Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (26,143 ratings, collected 2026-10-31) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781843621348 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
David Rain is still living with the Pennykettles and still hoping a publisher will take his book. Lucy makes a new clay dragon, a wishing dragon that David names G'reth. At college his tutor sets him an essay on whether dragons exist, with a funded research trip to the Arctic as the prize. As David researches, he finds a connection between dragons and the far north, and his writing dragon, Gadzooks, scribbles a mysterious name. Zanna Martindale, a college student who knows a great deal about dragons, becomes part of his circle, while the sibyl Gwilanna works behind the scenes. Old legends of polar bears and a fire tear begin to draw David towards the ice.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Last Dragon Chronicles
- Series: The Last Dragon Chronicles core; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Chris d'Lacey
Awards (verified)
- Angus Book Award, 2006: finalist
Notes
- From the series record (The Last Dragon Chronicles): Seven middle-grade fantasy novels following David Rain, the Pennykettle family and their living clay dragons.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Last Dragon Chronicles: position 2 of 7: previous The Fire Within (2001) · next Fire Star (2005)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Last Dragon Chronicles
- FictionDB series page
- The Nile: Hachette/Orchard Books listing
- Wikipedia: Icefire (d'Lacey novel)
- Wikipedia: Chris d'Lacey
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