The Blue Sword (Newbery Honor Roll)
Follow up to the Hero & the Crown
After reading the Hero and the Crown I think my expectations of this book were very high. I was disappointed that it didnt capture my heart as the first one did. But over all I think it was a good book and I enjoyed it.
Miss Harry
This book is on my very top top top list of favorite books. Most definitely my favorite of all of Robin Mckinley's books. I think the only reason she puts chapters in her stories is so you know where to breath or when to go to the bathroom. This one is certainly hard to leave on the table, especially if you have a love for horse flesh and the truest of loves.
This is a classic. This has got to be my favourite by Robin McKinley. It starts with a similar setting as victorian England in a desert. Orphaned Harry is in a new land. When the magic, secretive hillfolk come to visit with their amazing horses the adventures begin. This book starts out slow but is well worth it. There is a prequel called The Hero and the Crown.
Product Description
Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate?
"McKinley's spare and eloquent prose is sheer delight... a compelling portrait of the vibrant, wryly humorous Harry." -School Library Journal, starred review
"This is a zesty, romantic heroic...." -Booklist, starred review
Awards:
( A 1983 Newbery Honor Book)
( An ALA Notable Book)
( An ALA Best Book for Young Adults)
Product Description
Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate?
"McKinley's spare and eloquent prose is sheer delight... a compelling portrait of the vibrant, wryly humorous Harry." -School Library Journal, starred review
"This is a zesty, romantic heroic...." -Booklist, starred review
Awards:
( A 1983 Newbery Honor Book)
( An ALA Notable Book)
( An ALA Best Book for Young Adults)