Pub Date: April 1, 2003
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2002114333
Lexile Code: 0920
Features: Maps, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 7.50" L x 5.10" W ( 0.40 lbs) 288 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General | Dragons Unicorns and Mythical Creatures | Action and Adventure
Series: Harper Hall of Pern
Description: Award-winning fantasy author Anne McCaffrey returns with her bestselling Harper Hall Trilogy, wonder-filled imaginative classics now available in digest format.
Brief description: Anne Inez McCaffrey (1926-2011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey's forty-six-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science fiction books to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. In 1999, she was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its twenty-second Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.
Review Quotes: "This is science fantasy that is cohesive and briskly paced, with sturdy characterizations and a fully-conceived society."