Alanna: The First Adventure
core novel 1983 Tortall
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (138,249 ratings, collected 2026-08-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780689309946 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Tortall
- Series: Song of the Lioness core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tamora Pierce
Awards (verified)
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (Career Award (YALSA)), 2013: won; ALA/YALSA's own citation names 'Song of the Lioness series and The Protector of the Small quartet' explicitly; recorded against Alanna: The First Adventure (the flagship opening novel) as the representative work since the award spans two series rather than one book.
Notes
- From the series record (Song of the Lioness): Alanna of Trebond's quartet; the founding sequence of Tortall.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Song of the Lioness: position 1 of 4: next In the Hand of the Goddess (1984)
- Internal chronology, within Tortall: position 1 of 14: next In the Hand of the Goddess (1984)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Lioness
- https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2013/01/tamora-pierce-wins-2013-edwards-award-song-lioness-series-and-protector-small
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