From the Archives: The Firelings by Carol Kendall

Originally posted in September, 2005.

I'm reading the girls a book I discovered at age ten or eleven and read with immense relish several times over the next few years: The Firelings by Carol Kendall. I'm enjoying it just as much this time around. And it's one of those "oh please, just ONE more chapter" books for the kids.

The Firelings are a halfling people who live in the shadow of a volcano they call Belcher. The village legends tell of Belcher's former life as a Sky Creature who danced a...