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The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

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#3223 of 8,085 books · #256 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1983) and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (1971-1991) (1983).

The Blue Sword won the Newbery Honor and was a New York Times bestseller. A modern classic of young adult fantasy, The Blue Sword introduces the desert kingdom of Damar, where magic weaves through the blood and weaves together destinies. Harry Crewe is a Homelander orphan girl, come to live in Damar from over the seas. She is drawn to the bleak landscape, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. She wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, live. Corlath is the golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the legendary Lady Aerin. When he arrives in Harry's town to ally with the Homelanders against a common enemy, he never expects to set Harry's destiny in motion: She will ride into battle as a King's Rider, bearing the Blue Sword, the great mythical treasure, which no one has wielded since Lady Aerin herself. Legends and myths, no matter how epic, no matter how magical, all begin somewhere.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780062400727
Topics
Coming of ageDestiny and magicWar and heroism

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