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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780375838163
ISBN number: 0375838163
Label: Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: October 23, 2007
Publishing house: Random House Books for Young Readers
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 24366
Studio: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Tamora Pierce has been creating strong, appealing heroines for teen fantasy fans for years, creating 2 main universes to house her multiple series. With Terrier, Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. --Daphne Durham
An Essay from Tamora Pierce
Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the Provost's Guard—a rookie cop, in a world where a cop makes her own name based on her personality, her attitude toward money, and her love of the law. Beka means to prove that she is out to make her mark in this hard and physical world.
She does face a large obstacle. She's shy. Painfully shy. Left to her own devices, she would have no friends. It's hard for her to talk to people she doesn't know. It's a problem for the Guards who train her, a real problem for Beka—unless she can figure out that a uniform is a kind of costume, one she can hide behind. One that will make her a more outspoken person. It will help a lot if people come to realize that under her shyness is a clever, determined young woman. It will help even more if she can make friends who can give her good advice. Luckily, she has one such friend living with her in her slum apartment: a purple-eyed grey cat named Pounce. He can make himself understood in human speech if he wishes to. He's capable of doing weirdly intelligent things to help his young companion Beka. With Pounce to assist her, Beka cannot have an ordinary career.
Beka tells her own story in a journal that she keeps from her very very first day as a Puppy. The Guards are dubbed 'Dogs' in her time and their trainees are called 'Puppies.' In its pages she writes of her days with her training Dogs, the pair who are to teach her what they know of survival on the streets in the city's toughest slum. Both are veterans. Tunstall is an easygoing, funny man who can be a little crazy in a fight. Goodwin is a small, tough woman who is opposed to Beka's presence at the beginning, a hard Dog and a smart one. They take charge when Beka brings them word of two vicious sets of crimes. Like everyone else in Beka's life, her partners find out that once Beka gets a case in her teeth, she hangs onto it like a terrier until it's been solved.
I have all kinds of reasons why I went to the past of the Alanna books. In part I wanted to show how present-day Tortall came to be. I also knew George's fans would welcome any kind of return to the Lower City, even if it wasn't the Lower City of his time. I wanted to get away from the courts and nobility, the setting for so many of the Tortall books thus far. Since I didn't want to show any of the characters I've come to love as being old or even dead, I couldn't write books in the future of the current Tortall. I turned to the past, and I'm pretty sure my readers will be glad I did! --Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, an amazing young woman who lived 200 years before Pierce's popular Alanna character. For the very first time, Pierce employs first-person narration in a novel, bringing readers even closer to a character that they will love for her unusual talents and tough personality.
Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat that's about to get tougher, as Beka's limited ability to communicate with the dead clues her in to an underworld conspiracy. Someone close to Beka is using dark magic to profit from the Lower City's criminal enterprises--and the result is a crime wave the likes of which the Provost's Guard has never seen before.
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the plot flowed, as it does in so many of tamora's books, although it wasnt super exiting...
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I loved this book, as I have all the rest of Tamora Pierce's Books. Her characters are engaging and deeply crafted and will inspire the young girls who read their stories. Beka is by far one of Tamora's best - tough as nails but sensitive. I was nervous when I very first began to read the book, I typically dislike books written as journals or in very first person because I feel it is harder to pull it off and remain genuine. Nevertheless, she does a fantastic job. I am also pleased that she has ceased to restrict herself to the quartet set up of some of her previous series.
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I have read most of TPierce and this is one of the top novels I have read this century. If you read it, you'll probably start getting all her others. DO IT!
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Tamora Pierce has something in her writing. I can never put her books down... Great book!
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the book was just as cool as all the other ones this one goes into my favorites beka is a real person that people can relate to and her friends are also. the story is a little slow in the begining but the book in a whole is something you can stick your teeth into. and to those haters and you know who you are it seems to me that you are downing on the author for tyring something new adding a spice to her writing style just because someone is good at one thing doesnt mean that they cant be equally good at another. hence me saying that i loved the new way she wrote it. thats a sad way to look at things. on a lighter note pleeze let bloodhound come out sooner then april! subsequent year! i could die
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