Product Description

The complete saga of Alanna the Lioness from her years as a page–disguised as a boy–to her triumphant adventures as a knight of Tortall and her rise to the highest rank of King’s Champion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #590642 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-27
• Released on: 2003-05-27
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Paperback

Review
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“This series is sprightly, filled with adventure and marvelously satisfying.”–School Library Journal

“Alanna’s world is a harsh one, but believeable. . . . This fantasy provides food for introspection as well as flights of imagination in a magical kingdom.”–Kirkus Reviews

“Lively and enjoyable, with a strong, vigorous heroine.”
–The Horn Book Magazine on The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“It has the appeal of good winning over evil and of the resilient courage of a believeably heroic female protagonist.”
–The Bulletin on Lioness Rampant

Customer Reviews

Awesome Series
These books are amazing. In fact, they are so good that I got really depressed when I finished the series. I'm going to have trouble fining a good book to replace this one. It has all the stuff for teens: adventure, excitement, and most of all, romance. In this series, Alanna of Trebond is determined to be a knight. During her long year training to become a knight and trying to prove herself worthy of being one, she fights the Nameless Ones of the Black City, defeats the evil duke Roger, trains shamans for the Bazhir tribe, the Bllody Hawk, and quests for the Dominion Jewel. Throughout the series Alanna proves herself not only worthy of being the first female page, squire, and knight in a century, but worthy to be the first female King's Champion. This series is an absolute must-read, and I don't think there will ever be a series better than this one!

From a future minister
I am shocked and dismayed by some of the reviews I have seen of this series. I began these books at age 12, and have bought them again at age 22. I am appalled that some people's views of premarital sex (which, by the way, is never depicted explicitly and has never been explicit in any of Tamora Pierce's novels) would allow them to dismiss Alanna as a role model.
First of all, Tamora Pierce does not write children's books, and has in fact stated that she writes her books for teens AND adults. She writes fantasy novels, but a good bit of their appeal is that she keeps them connected to real life. I have seen some people claim that any adult themes/undertones are the result of being modeled after medieval Europe...to that I would reply that while the society is based on old Europe, the people are just people. Does Alanna have sex? Yes. Does she experience the gamut of human emotions and sometimes make bad decisions? Yes. Alanna's appeal is that she is a person--with human failings--who sets out to achieve something great through her perseverence, faith, and staunch belief in protecting those who cannot protect themselves. She grows into a woman who is nobody's fool, refuses to allow herself be put into a "woman's role", and builds the life that she wants.
This book is going to make children have sex? In our society, teens don't need books to give them the idea to have sex. Parents providing stable support and listening to their children's lives and concerns is the only way that those children will make life choices, not their reading material. If parents believe that filtering their children's books will make them "good kids", they will filter out the best literature (Shakespeare, Austen, Grimms Fairy Tales, etc.) ever written...and in the process, remove all the heroes like Alanna (with her menstration, fears about her body, occasional self-doubts) whose lives they can relate to. If I could give this series 10 stars, I would.

you'll never read a better series
This is without a doubt, the best series i've ever read. It's about Alanna, a girl who wants to become a knight. Except there's one problem: If anyone finds out she's a girl she's through. During her 8-year masquerade as the boy, Alan, she uncovers adventure, sorcery, evil forces, dangerous enemies, the ordeal of knighthood, (i could go on forever) even love. and in a very wide range: from the royal prince Jonathan, to the shang dragon, liam, to the king of theives, george. Alanna is very brave and couragous and she lives her dreams in the end. i was really mad when i finished reading this series and i think there should be more books. (the second one is my favorite) Alanna is the coolest character ever and i look forward to reading more books by tamora pierce although none will be better than these.