Alanna: The First Adventure

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Summary: 5 Stars for Alana: The First Adventure
Review: Alana: The First Adventure is a wonderful read for any fantasy fan! The plot is interesting, exciting, and very original, along with providing a very strong female character. It also leaves a nice opening for the books to come. Anyone who enjoys fantasy at all needs to read this book! Tow thumbs up!

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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!
Review: I LOVE this book and all of the books Tamora Pierce has writen. They are exciting, incredibly adventurous, and the best books i have ever read! On a scale of i through 100 i would rate it 100+. A definate winner!

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is a terrific book! I love it! Alanna is a great character. My favorite part is at the end of the book when Alanna and Jonathen battle the Yasindr in the black city. George is a very funny and colorful character, one of my favorites! I look forward to reading the rest of the quartet.

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Summary: This is an excellent book!
Review: I was first introduced to this book in third grade by someone who was babysitting me. By fourth grade I had read the whole series a number of times. I don't know if I would say this one or the last one was my favorite, but both were great. You can imagine the characters are real, and the same goes to the world they live in. I still love these books, but now I'm in eighth grade. I see all these adults who have read these books, and I think it is great! I can read these over and over and over and not get bored, even though I know exactly what is going to happen and when. I doubt they will ever get boring, thank God. I'll always have a good book to read! I recommend reading the whole series, along with the Wild Magic series, after you read this book, to find out all that happens to Alanna. I havn't read her new series yet, I think I'll wait for it to come out in paper back. I don't know if I'm ready to read something by her that isn't somehow related to the magical world of Tortall and Alanna! Well anyway, this is an excellent book, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes reading even a little bit, and especially to girls. I don't think this is really a guy book...

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Summary: Great Writing Rotten Cover
Review: I first want to say that Tamora Pierce is one of my favorite authors and I own all of her books. There is not one book that she has written that I do not like. The reason I only give this book one star, though, is because the quality of the cover of this particular hardcover edition of this book. It is not good quality at all. All it is is a re-covered paperback edition, making it a hard cover book, with the paperback cover pasted to the harder cover. I even contacted the author's publisher and they confirmed that this was not an edition that they had produced, even though there name was in the book. So, my advise is to defenetly read this book because it is a great book, but to buy the paperback version because the "real" hardcover addition is out off print.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: This book is very interesting. I just finished reading it and go online right away to find the next book in series. I hope Alanna reach her goal later on. I think that Jon and Alanna got something with each other in the next book. How romantic.

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Summary: A book full of courage and persistence
Review: I personally LOVED this book. It takes place in the medievil ages in mystical lands with magic. The main character is named Alanna. She is a girl that wants to be a knight, but her father wants her to go to the convent and learn to be a lady, like all of the other nobly born girls. Alanna's twin brother, Thom, wanted to be a sorcerer and the convent also taught magic. Thom, an amature forger, forged the letters supposed to go with them and they swiched places. This book is about the courage and strength of will it takes to train to be a Knight,making enemies, keeping friends, and to keep the kind of secret she's got to keep!

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I LOVE the Alanna series! They are the best books in the whole world! I got hooked on all of Mrs. Pierce's books when I read this one. I am an avid reader, and I know a good book from a bad one, and her books are WONDERFUL! If you don't have anything to read, my advice is to pick up one of these and you won't stop reading. Trust me-YOU WILL GET HOOKED!

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Summary: ONE FANTASTIC BOOK!
Review: This wonderful book is about a girl called Alanna who wants to be a knight,but there is one problem: she's a girl.As she sets off to the castle disguised as a her "brothers twin" she becoms a page. With the help of her friends Alanna comes to love the palace BUT an evil sorocer sends a deadly sickness! . Everyone is falling sick then the prince falls sick and it is up to Alanna to save him. It is a great read and reccemend to anyone who likes a good read.LONG LIVE TORTALL! (and tamora p i love your books!)

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Summary: song of the lioness quartet
Review: As a mother who bought this set of books for my 13 yr old daughter, I was unhappy with the content. I purchased it because of reviews about the strong feminine main character but upon reading the series, I was surprised that Alanna as a teen slept with different male friends.(for someone as innocent as Alanna, a kiss would have been enough and would still have given a bit of romance to the story) I also felt like there was too much reference to drinking wine in the series (and why? Teens don't need that and it added nothing to the story). I am not that conservative myself, but I do think that literature for young girls could do better. Overall, I felt the series was fun to read but was light reading (romance book type light) and not that believable. Even my daughter pointed out how hard to believe much of it was. She said it wasn't that well written and I have noticed she hasn't read the other quartet of Tamora Pierce's that I purchased for her at Christmas. That is saying something, because she reads everything she gets her hands on.