Daja's Book
core novel 1998 Circle of Magic (Emelan)
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.13 (31,871 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 232 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780590553582 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In the third Circle of Magic novel, Daja Kisubo, a Trader girl gifted with magic over metal, travels northward with her foster family from Winding Circle and encounters people of the very Trader culture that banished her after her ship was wrecked and she alone survived. Living among Traders again forces Daja to confront the customs and prejudices that shaped her exile, even as she tries to find her footing among them. When a careless mage fails to contain a forest fire threatening a nearby clan, Daja's unusual command of metal and fire magic becomes essential to protecting people who had turned her away. The book follows her efforts to reconcile her outsider status with her sense of duty, while she and her found family of fellow young mages continue to rely on one another as they face this new crisis together.
Where it sits
- Universe: Circle of Magic (Emelan)
- Series: Circle of Magic core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tamora Pierce
Notes
- From the series record (Circle of Magic): Also published under alternate US titles (The Magic in the Weaving, etc.) in later reissues; original titles used here per the author's own bibliography.
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 Circle of Magic: position 3 of 4: previous Tris's Book (1998) · next Briar's Book (1999)
- Internal chronology, within Circle of Magic (Emelan): position 3 of 11: previous Tris's Book (1998) · next Briar's Book (1999)
Sources
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