From Tamora Pierce, the third book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award. Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death?either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman?despite the desert dwellers? grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes?for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall.
Publisher:[Place of publication not identified] : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
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Formatted Contents Note:
The woman who rides like a man -- The bloody hawk -- Bazhir Shaman -- Studies in sorcery -- Apprentices -- Ceremonies -- The voice of the tribes -- The king of the thieves -- At the sign of the dancing dove -- The doomed sorceress.
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