Alanna: The First Adventure

Its place in Song of the Lioness

Alanna: The First Adventure is book 1 in the Song of the Lioness series. It is followed by In the Hand of the Goddess. See the full Song of the Lioness reading order.

Song of the Lioness begins when ten-year-old Alanna of Trebond swaps places with her twin brother Thom, who wants to study sorcery at a temple instead of training for knighthood, and disguises herself as a boy -- 'Alan' -- to take his place as a royal page in Tortall's capital. Across four books she grows from an undersized, furious child determined to prove herself against boys twice her size into the kingdom's first female knight in centuries, her secret concealed for years even from Prince Jonathan, her fellow…