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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  bluesalamanders | Nov 8, 2009 |  I'm very proud of myself! Three books in 3 days and two of them in less than 24 hours each. I had remembered very little of Page and don't recall anything from Squire. My favorite part of Page would ahve been to be the gifts from her "mysterious benefactor" and watching Keladry come into womanhood. I look foreward to seeing who chooses Keladry as their Squire in the sequal. (  ) | Apr 13, 2009 | edit | |   In the second book of the quartet, Kel has proved that she can keep up with the boys. In this book, Kel is growing up and learning all new things about 'womanhood', both physically and emotionally-starting to fill out her clothes differently and seeing friends in new ways. Her enemy bullies are still trying to get rid of her, and they'll stop at nothing to make sure she doesn't pass her end of year exams. ( ) jfoster_sf | Mar 19, 2009 | I loved this book. It's the second in the series by Tamora Pierce. I've been reading all her series that revolve around the world of Tortall (sp?) and I just love her main female characters. In this book, Kel is finally turning into a young lady, despite all of her training. She is starting to get treated a bit differently by the other pages and I can feel some starting feelings of romance. I just love these series that Tamora Pierce writes. ( ) knielsen83 | Mar 5, 2009 | I really like this book it is very suspenseful!!! I really like the author's type of writing! chblondie97 | Dec 18, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0679889159, Hardcover)As the only female page in history to last beyond the first year of formal training to become a knight, 11-year-old Keladry of Mindelan has an uphill battle to fight. In addition to proving herself worthy of being a page, Kel spends her time defending first-year pages from bullies, staying on top of homework, conquering her paralyzing fear of heights, and keeping up with Lord Wyldon's grueling physical training schedule. Kel's detractors do everything in their power to thwart her progress, from tormenting her friends to sabotaging the Midwinter Festivities to kidnapping her maid and dog on the day of final examinations. The tide of resistance begins to turn slightly during the summer between Kel's second and third years, when she leads a team of pages in defensive maneuvers against renegade bandits--coincidentally on the same day that she gets her first period!Tamora Pierce revisits the imaginary Kingdom of Tortall in this sequel to First Test: Protector of the Small. Fans of Pierce's exotic fantasy sequences will be hard-pressed to put either book down. Kel is a valuable role model: she's proud of being a girl, and she never wavers in her conviction that she can do anything a boy can--and usually do it better. Some rather bloody battles as well as discussions about Kel's developing body make this book appropriate for more mature readers. (Ages 10 to 14) --Emilie Coulter (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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This book has its ups and downs. The dialogue occasionally knocks me out of suspension of disbelief by being sounding too modern and there are long stretches of time that are glossed over or simply absent because the book covers three years and occasionally this is jarring. However, overall I enjoy the book. (