Robin McKinley's other books include the Newbery Award-winning "The Hero and the Crown"; Newbery Honor Book "The Blue Sword; Sunshine; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; The Outlaws of Sherwood;" and the short story collections "The Door in the Hedge; A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories;" and, with her husband, the author Peter Dickinson, "Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits". She lives in England with her husband, three whippets, and over five hundred rosebushes.
Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl, is pleased with her new home. Life in Istan is certainly easy, but a voice in her ear whispers that the home of her heart is among the Hillfolk, among the descendants of Lady Aerin, who once wielded Gonturan, the B...[SEE MORE]