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When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed.
Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. The desert she stares across was once a part of the great kingdom of Damar, before the Homelanders came from over the seas. Harry wishes she might crossthe sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. She hears stories that the Free Hillfolk possess strange powers -- that they work magic -- that it is because of this that they remain free of the Homelander sway.
When the king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their enmity aside to fight a common foe, the Homelanders are reluctant to trust his word, and even more reluctant to believe his tales of the Northerners: that they are demonkind, not human.
Harry's destiny lies in the far mountains that she once wished to climb, and she will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army, bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery.
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Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile audience, colonies, war horses, Elementary and junior high school, Newbery Honor Award, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, Newbery Honor, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, Fantastic fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Fantasy fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, fantasy, general, Damar (imaginary place), fiction, Children's fiction, award:Newberry_award, award:Caldecott_award, award:Newbery_awardPeople
Angharad Crewe, Corlath, Lady Aerin, Jack Dedham, Mathin, Richard Crewe, Thurra, Sir Charles, Harry CreweShowing 4 featured editions. View all 30 editions?
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The Blue Sword
2000, Puffin Books, Penguin Putnam~trade
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0141311886 9780141311883
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The Blue Sword
1987-03, Ace Books
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0441068804 9780441068807
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The Blue Sword
1982, Greenwillow Books
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This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.
And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle.
And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood, the weaver of destinies...
--back cover
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