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Summary "Girls are fragile, more emotional, easier to frighten." This is the typical attitude that Keladry fo Mindelan is up against. Kel is the first girl in ten years to take advantage of the decree of knighthood, and she is about to smach everyone's preconceptions about what girls can and cannot do... Set in Tortall during the reign fo King Jonathan III and Queen Thayet, First Test launches the Protector of the Small series, which chronicles the coming of age of a heroine who is far more that she seems. "The scrappy Kel is an appealing adn believable girl whose struggles to integrate a formerly all-male world are both familiar and freshly told." --School Library Journal "Old and new readers will be won over by Kel, a quieter, more thoughtful, but no less appealing protagonist [than Tamora Pierce's previous ones]." --Publishers Weekly Part school story... part fanasy... part animal story... this is a splendidly rousing feast." --Booklist |