The Hero and the Crown
| Other author | McKinley, Robin 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Open Road Integrated Media, LLC |
| Description | 248 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Summary | Annotation In Robin McKinley's Newbery Medal-winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realmAerin is an outcast in her own father's court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her father's lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father's library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat's weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment ...But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history.That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king's troop is assembled: "The Black Dragon has come ... Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened." |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781497673656 |
| ISBN | 1497673658 (E-Book) Forthcoming |
| Standard identifier# | 9781497673656 |
| Stock number | 01521375 |
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