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When she became a knight, eighteen-year-old Kel hoped to be given a combat post, but instead she finds herself named commander of an outpost of refugees, where she must face the unnatural forces of

The Legend of Beka Cooper gives Tamora Pierce's fans exactly what they want, a smart and savvy heroine making a name for herself on the mean streets of Tortall's Lower City, while offerin

Evvy has accompanied her guardian, Rosethorn, on a mission to study a mysterious plant die-off. Preventing a natural disaster may cost Evvy her life.

In an intimate, loving approach to the tragic subject of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, the acclaimed author of Dreary and Izzy shines a light on the haunting tale of a preteen&#0

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential sc

Two grown sisters face off over their mother's death-bed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world.

Bestselling fantasy author Tamora Pierce continues to challenge Keladry of Mindelan in her quest to become a knight. Keladry of Mindelan, 14, is a squire.

Arram Draper is on the path to becoming one of the realm's most powerful mages.

The start to a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, an amazing young woman who is the medieval equivalent of a police officer and has magical powers.

It's 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody.

"The map of the land is in our blood." A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dislodge something—anything.

Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 1 of the Circle of Magic Quartet, gifted young weaver Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community.

On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional deve