Protector of the Small · Book 1
First Test
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780613251846
- Type
- novel
About this book
Tamora Pierce began Protector of the Small with First Test in 1999, a 240-page opener. It introduces Keladry of Mindelan, the first girl to train openly for knighthood in Tortall after a law change, and puts her through a probationary first year specifically designed to make her quit -- a deliberate contrast to Alanna's disguised struggle a generation earlier in Song of the Lioness.
Its place in Protector of the Small
First Test is book 1 in the Protector of the Small series. It is followed by Page. See the full Protector of the Small reading order.
Protector of the Small follows Keladry of Mindelan, the first girl to train openly for knighthood in Tortall since a law change opened the pages' training to girls -- unlike Alanna, who had to disguise herself as a boy a generation earlier, Kel trains as herself, in full view of instructors and fellow pages who range from supportive to openly hostile. That difference reframes the same basic knighthood-training premise Song of the Lioness used: where Alanna's struggle was concealment, Kel's is enduring visible…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613251846