Daja's Book
by:
Tamora Pierce (author)
Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 3 of the Circle of...
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Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 3 of the Circle of Magic Quartet, outcast Trader Daja and her friends journey from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains, where drought threatens widespread famine. There, Daja creates an astonishing object: a living metal vine. A caravan of Traders covets the vine, and Daja's dealing with her former people reawaken a longing for familiar ways. Now Daja must choose--should she return to the Traders or remain with the Winding Circle folk who have become her family?
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780590554107 (0590554107)
ASIN: 590554107
Publish date: June 24th 2006
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Series: Circle of Magic (#3)
So for the Emelan series, I have only read the Circle of Magic quartet, which this is the third of. For whatever reason, Daja's Book was also the one I remembered the most and it's as great as I remember. The four students and their teachers go with Sandry's uncle as he inspects the northern area ...
By far the best so far in this series. We get so much more insight into Daja's character and background than the titular characters of either previous book. The plot is fairly obvious, but still a fun read with sulfured hot springs, a glacier, and copper roses and so many more interesting bits of ma...
Another solid book in the series
This is the third book in the Circle of Mages series about four young mages in training, linked magically and by friendship: Ssndry, Tris, Briar, and Daja, who is the focus of this book. By this time in the Circle series I was well and truly hooked. I certainly felt for Daya and her backstory, her s...
"On the horizon the landscape's burnin' red..."On the heels of the earthquake and the ensuant pirate attack, the Duke is taking a tour of the Northern districts and is, of course, taking along our four kids and their teachers as part of his retinue. There's been a severe drought going on for three y...