The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

About this book

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

Subjects

  • award:caldecott_award
  • award:newberry_award
  • award:newbery_award
  • children's fiction
  • colonies
  • damar (imaginary place), fiction
  • elementary and junior high school
  • fantastic fiction
  • fantasy
  • fantasy fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, fantasy, general
  • juvenile audience
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general
  • juvenile fiction / family / siblings
  • juvenile fiction / fantasy & magic
  • juvenile fiction / girls & women
  • juvenile fiction / social themes / new experience
  • juvenile fiction / social themes / self-esteem & self-reliance
  • juvenile works
  • newbery honor
  • newbery honor award
  • war horses