Heartlight
core novel 1990 Heartlight Saga
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.68 (1,179 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399221804 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Kate Gordon is a twelve-year-old with a keen interest in physics. Her grandfather, a physicist who was working on a mysterious project, vanishes without explanation. Kate sets out to learn what happened to him and is drawn into a journey far beyond Earth, travelling to a distant galaxy where she must find him and save his life. Along the way she discovers a secret that threatens the future of the Earth and the whole solar system. The story blends science and magic, treating them as two ways of understanding the universe, and puts a curious girl at the centre of a danger much larger than her family.
Where it sits
- Universe: Heartlight Saga
- Series: The Heartlight Saga core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. A. Barron
Notes
- From the series record (The Heartlight Saga): Three adventures of Kate Gordon, from a distant galaxy to the redwoods of five centuries ago to the sea floor.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Heartlight Saga: position 1 of 3: next The Ancient One (1992)
Sources
- T. A. Barron: The Heartlight Saga
- Penguin Random House: The Heartlight Saga
- AbeBooks listing: Philomel first edition hardcover, 1990
- T. A. Barron: Origins of Kate Gordon and the Heartlight Saga
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