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MAGE "This impressive entry in Pierce's saga will leave fans clamoring for more."-Starred, Booklist FIRST TEST "The scrappy Kel is an appealing and believable girl whose struggles to integrate a formerly all-male world are both familiar and freshly told." -School Library Journal LIONESS RAMPANT "Full of slam-bang action...young readers will rejoice." -Kirkus Reviews PAGE "Kel's character growth continues as she deals with puberty, works to overcome her fear of heights, and gains the respect of her peers and teachers." -School Library Journal WOLF SPEAKER "Daine is a super new heroine who makes this action-packed fantasy a joy to read." -VOYA THE WOMAN WHO RIDES LIKE A MAN "Alanna's world is a harsh one, but believable. . . . This fantasy provides food for introspection as well as flights of imagination in a magical kingdom." -Kirkus Reviews
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Tamora Pierce
"My greatest rewards for writing are the fan mail I get, telling me I helped a reader to get through some terrible experience or time, and my own personal escape from the poverty of my teens and twenties." –Tamora Pierce
In the sixth grade, Tamora Pierce was encouraged by her father to start writing and she immediately got hooked. Once she discovered fantasy and science fiction, she tried to write the same kind of stories she read, only with teenaged girl heroines who were usually missing from the 1960s stories.
Before her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania where she studied psychology, Pierce rediscovered writing when she wrote her first original short story since tenth grade. She sold her first story a year later and then enrolled in a fiction writing course during her senior year. When her teacher suggested that she tackle a novel, her childhood ideas came back to her and she began her first sword and sorcery novel.
Pierce then worked as a housemother in an Idaho group home for teenaged girls, who loved hearing Alanna’s story from the in-progress quartet, Song of the Lioness. As Pierce continued to write and send out manuscripts, she moved to Manhattan to get her publishing career off the ground.
Pierce still lives in Manhattan with her husband, writer/filmmaker Tim, and their three cats, two parakeets, plus a floating population of rescued wildlife. She enjoys her hectic life as a full-time writer and she hopes that her books leave her readers with the feeling that they can achieve anything if they want it badly enough.
About
the Series:
Protector of the Small
This
is the tale of Keladry of Mindelan, a girl who wants just one thing: to
repeat the feat of her hero, Alanna the Lioness, and win her knight's
shield. The series begins when Kel is old enough to be a page, and the
King has just decreed that any nobly-born girl with her parents' consent
can enter the palace school. Kel has that permission, along with the warnings
of her parents and older brothers, that she will not exactly be welcomed
in her new life. They are right, but she means to succeed.
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About
the Series: The Immortals
All the orphan Daine wants when she comes to Tortall is a job. What she
finds is magic in many forms, an ongoing war with creatures from legends
and nightmares, a new home and, eventually, her unknown father. Hired
by the Queen's Riders to help with their horses, she learns her knack
with animals is a rare magic which helps her to communicate with the animal
kingdom. With that discovery she becomes the studentòthen friend and sometimes
protectoròof the great mage Numair. Daine is kept on the move as she grows
into adulthood and into her powers; coming to terms with her world and
her strange, mixed parentage.
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About
the Series: Song of the Lioness
This story is about the making of a hero. It's also about a very stubborn
girl. Alanna of Trebond wants to be a knight of the realm of Tortall,
in a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors. The quartet is about
her struggle to achieve her goals and to master weapons, combat, polite
behavior, her magic, her temper, and even her own heart. It is about the
power of friendships and about a long struggle against a powerful enemy
mage. Singled out by a goddess, accompanied by a semi-divine cat with
firm opinions, Alanna survives her many adventures to become a most unlikely
legend.
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