Squire (Protector of the Small, No. 3)

Tamora Pierce

ISBN 10: 0679889167 / ISBN 13: 9780679889168

Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001

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Synopsis:

After four years of serving her knight, fourteen-year-old Keladry of Mindelan is about to take her final test in a magical room called the Chamber where her inner demons must be faced.

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Squire (Protector of the Small, No. 3)
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good