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Price Last Updated : 7-30-2008
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Features
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Ace March 15, 1987
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441068804
ISBN-13: 978-0441068807
Product Dimensions:
6.8 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Book Description
Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate?
"McKinley's spare and eloquent prose is sheer delight a compelling portrait of the vibrant, wryly humorous Harry." -School Library Journal, starred review
"This is a zesty, romantic heroic." -Booklist, starred review
Awards:
( A 1983 Newbery Honor Book
( An ALA Notable Book
( An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Card Catalog Description
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Reader Reviews
At first Harry Crewe is not so different than a number of heroines you've probably met in your reading adventures. She's an orphan who must make a new life in a new place. This is difficult for a girl who has never really seemed to fit in anywhere. She longs constantly for something she can't quite name. All that sounds typical, right? Well, it's what happens next that will make this a book you won't soon forget...and it's nothing even close to typical. Almost by accident, Harry catches the eye of Corlath, King of the Hillfolk, who cannot seem to forget the woman. He returns for her and carries her off across the desert. Harry finds the culture strangely second nature and herself connecting with the King as no one else appears able to. Harry is surprised when the King begins having her trained as a warrior, and downright shocked when she becomes one of the best warriors in her new country's history. As war looms on the horizon and Harry finds herself falling in love with her King, she risks his wrath and her life on a daring mission she was forbidden to undertake. And all that is only a scratch on the surface of a truly engaging fantasy novel that kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish.
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Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley
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