Trickster's Choice
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Annotation: Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.
Catalog Number:
#306239
Details
Publisher:
Random House
Copyright:
2003
Pages:
422 p.
Available:
Edition Not Yet Published
ISBN:
0-375-82879-6
Dewey:
F
LCCN:
2003-005202
Dimensions:
21 cm.
Binding Type:
Perma-Bound
Language:
english
Reviewing Agencies:
ALA Best Book For Young Adults, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates
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Word Count:
118,720
Reading Level:
5.8
Interest Level:
7-12
Accelerated Reader:
reading level: 5.8
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points: 19.0
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quiz: 74765
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grade: MG
Reading Counts!:
reading level: 6.1
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points:25.0
Lexile:
790
Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy. Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne. From the Hardcover edition.
School Library Journal
Gr 7-10-Alianne, daughter of Alanna (Alanna: The First Adventure [Random, 1989]), is ready to create her own legend. As the book opens, Aly, 16, longs to follow in her father's footsteps as a spy, but her parents refuse to allow it. Annoyed, she sails off in her boat, only to be captured by pirates and sold into slavery, fortunately to kindly Duke Balitang. She meets Kyprioth, the Trickster, and strikes a bargain: if Aly keeps the Duke and his family safe for the summer, Kyprioth will return her to her family and persuade her parents to let her be a spy. With magic, spells, winged horses that are part human and part metal, crows that take human form (and provide a romance for Aly), brutal fighting, treason, and attempted kidnapping, this fantasy has plenty to hold readers' attention. It also offers an interesting examination of race, as well as a look at an adolescent's finding her independence, an especially difficult task with such a powerful mother. Aly is a strong, intelligent, and resilient feminist who stretches this fantasy to a parable of girl-power. The book at times bogs down in the sheer number of characters and relationships, and in the author's zealous attention to descriptive details, but Pierce's fans will enjoy it.-Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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California Recommended Titles 2005, Titles K-12 #1003068
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CCBC 2004 Choices: Fiction For Children #872228
IL Best Books For Young Adults, 2004: Fiction (ALA/YALSA) #855508
IL Best Books For Young Adults, 2004: Fiction (ALA/YALSA) #930138
IL Fantasy Fiction, 7-12 #1005037
IL Fantasy Fiction, 7-12 #1005038
Kathleen Odean - Best New Books for Young Adults 2003-2004: Fantasy and Science Fiction #767598
New Jersey Best Fiction Seventh Grade #923598
NYSTL Best Books for Young Adults 2004 Fiction (ALA/YALSA) #1006132
NYSTL Fantasy, 7-12 #946538
NYSTL Tamora Pierce #935657
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South Carolina Junior Book Award 2006-2007 #756118
Texas Tayshas High School Reading List 04/05 #1008256
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