The Immortals: Realms of the Gods: No. 4 (Point Fantasy S.) - Softcover

Pierce, Tamora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590133764 ISBN 13: 9780590133760

Publisher: Scholastic Point, 1996

Synopsis

Trouble has come again to Tortall. Not only are Daine, Numair and their friends fighting against their old enemy, Ozorne, but the barrier between the realms has vanished. When Numair and Daine are dragged into the Divine Realms, they realise the situation is worse than they had thought.

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Review

"School Library Journal" Daine...is an ideal heroine -- adventurous, intelligent, and gifted with magical powers, yet down-to-earth and kind to anyone who is not an open enemy.

About the Author

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.

Tamora Pierce is a popular author of fantasy books for teenagers. In her latest quartet, Protector of the Small, readers follow heroine Kel as she rigorously trains for the knighthood.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Point
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590133764
• ISBN 13: 9780590133760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352