Synopsis
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
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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
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Stated; "1" in Number Line. First printing copy of the first book in the Protector of the Small series. Red paper-covered boards have softening to caps and light wear at tips; interior clean, pages crisp, no previous owner name or marks, about Near Fine. Dust jacket FINE with price intact on flap. Not Signed. Seller Inventory # 104111001
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