This book, by Tamora Pierce (one of my favorite authors!) is about a girl named Alanna. She and her twin brother want to do different things with their lives than what their father wants them to do. In this medieval tale, Alanna wants to become a knight, and her twin, Thom, wants to learn sorcery. Their father wants them to do the opposite.
Alanna convinces her brother to go along with her plan: she'd pretend to be a boy and go to the palace to become a knight while Thom would go and learn magic. A radical idea, surely.
This book follows her adventures and hardships as she makes friends, and enemies, struggling to keep her secret a secret and fulfill her callings in magic and the path to knighthood.
I really loved this book and I plan on finding copies of the others in the series and read them as well.
Rating: 8 or 9 (out of 10)
On Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Alanna-First-Adventure-Song-Lioness/dp/0689878559
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No link to the book on Amazon or B&N? You're making me work for it!
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