Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Protector of the Small Quartet: First Test by Tamora Pierce

Keladry of Mindelan has her heart set on becoming a knight.  Though her parents worry that it might prove too difficult a challenge even for a girl with Kel’s courage, she is determined to join the pages being trained at the court of King Jonathan.  Since a new proclamation has decreed that girls be permitted, [...]

Friday, November 28th, 2008

A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson

Since their mother’s death, three years before, eleven year-old Corrie and her five brothers and sisters have had only one another to hold onto. Lost in his classes and his research and his book, their professor father seems largely oblivious to them, the sad state of the house and garden, and the terrible meals [...]