This book is about a boy called David Rain. He goes to lodge at the Pennykettles house because there are no spaces in the dormitories at Scrubbly College. Liz Pennykettle and her daughter Lucy make clay dragons, some of which they keep and some of which they sell at market.
Liz makes David a dragon called Gadzooks. Gadzooks is a writing dragon. David has to take care of Gadzooks or his spark will go out. Lucy is mad about squirrels, especially grey ones and keeps a lookout for the squirrels who used to live in the oak tree in the middle of Wayward Crescent. She wants to find one squirrel, who she has named Conker, because a crow called Cartarcus poked out Conker's right eye.
David finds out about the dragons and that Liz is a descendant of Guinevere, Saviour of Dragons. He discovers that all of the dragons in the Pennykettle household have the power to fly around and set fire to things when you are not looking.
This is the first book in a series and was very good. I would strongly recommend it to children between the ages of 9 and 11. It has a really good ending and I think you will be satisfied!
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