Sandry's Book
core novel 1997 Circle of Magic (Emelan)
Record
| First published | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (45,430 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 252 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780590553568 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Sandry's Book, the first novel in the Circle of Magic quartet, is set in the fictional land of Emelan. After a plague kills her parents, ten-year-old noblewoman Sandrilene fa Toren, known as Sandry, is rescued from quarantine by the mage Niklaren Goldeye. He brings her to Discipline Cottage at Winding Circle temple, where she is thrown together with three other unwanted children: Tris, a girl exiled by her own family; Daja, the sole survivor of a Trader ship's wreck; and Briar, a reformed street thief. Each of the four has an unconventional magical gift that untrained adult mages have failed to recognize or control, and traditional lessons only make their powers more unstable and dangerous.
Where it sits
- Universe: Circle of Magic (Emelan)
- Series: Circle of Magic core; position 1 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 1 of 4: next Tris's Book (1998)
- Internal chronology, within Circle of Magic (Emelan): position 1 of 11: next Tris's Book (1998)
Sources
← Circle of Magic (Emelan) dossier · All universes
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