Book #10: Alanna The First Adventure: Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce.
I freakin love this book. I am so glad my friend handed me the first four books in the series. I like the plot exposition. I like the language. I like the characters. Just plain win. Excellent. Now that I have children comatose on the couch maybe I can catch up on reading.
The book starts out with the main character as a 10 year old and it only lasts till she is 13. This is going to be wonderful to read aloud in another two or three years.
#11: In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
#12: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
#13: Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
Yeah!! I really enjoy her writing, and I thought they would be great books for all 4 kids when they’re a bit older. Fantastical creatures, magic, strong women. I’ll get you the rest of that universe out of storage. I’m missing a few, but maybe this is my excuse to finish the collection.
You may also enjoy Pierce’s other series. I would most highly recommend the Protector of the Small quartet, about the first openly female knight (unlike Alanna, she doesn’t have to hide her sex during training, and takes the expected amount of crap for it). There’s also one about a teenage spy — in a society where 15-16 is a competent adult, so it’s a challenging juvenile adventure, not a sappy YA romance — and one about a young woman who starts as a beat cop in a pre-industrial city and becomes the equivalent of a K-9 detective. I was kinda “meh” about the Wild Magic series, but it might be good for 8-12s.
Those series are all in the same universe. I gave them to her in order. Lioness is the beginning.
And I’m most of the way through the third book already. 😀
She is one of my favorite authors. 🙂 I am glad you are enjoying the books.