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Dragonsong (Harper Hall of Pern #1)

Anne McCaffrey

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 46053 Users | 1397 Reviews

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Original Title:	Dragonsong
ISBN:	141692499X (ISBN13: 9781416924999)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Harper Hall of Pern #1, Pern (Chronological Order) #18, Pern #3 , more
Characters:	Menolly
Setting:	Pern
Literary Awards:	California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Middle School/Junior High (1980)

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A book doesn't have to be Great Literature or even particularly good to appear on my "formative fiction" shelf, it just has to be a book with a meaning that changed me or helped me to understand myself and the world in a new way. Fortunately, Dragonsong is also a very good book of its type. The best friend of my childhood was different from me in many ways: middle-class to my trailer-trash, older, weak where I was strong (he suffered from a heart condition that would kill him while still a teenager), and part of a large and functioning family. We both lived in religious households that discouraged "worldly" reading but, while my folks were strict, his were lax. During a winter holiday sleep-over, he smuggled Dragonsong and some of its many sequels to me. We sprawled in front of the wood-stove and read all day and long into the night. I'd scrimped to save for treats and, feeling very elegant, served us Ritz crackers with Cheeze-Whiz (the big jar!) and vienna sausages. I was so anxious to impress, I put my finger on the side of the stove to show him how long I could stand to sizzle. There were other sleep-overs and other books, but this is was the important one, the one I remember whenever I open a new book and read merely for the pleasure of escape into another kind of life. Menolly, the protagonist of Dragonsinger, escapes in a more literal way. Denied the expression of her natural abilities, she runs away to live independently. She fed my tomboy fantasies by living rough, making her own shelter, killing and skinning a large bird, and taming wild animals. Just when she is settling into her new rustic life, disaster strikes. Finally, her talents are recognized by kindly people who whisk her away on dragon-back to a new community of people who can value her for the reasons she values herself. It is not a complicated story, but it is well-told and the theme is universal. It has resonated in my life as I have tried, with only some measure of success, to find a safe place where my own talents are recognized and friends who care for me not in spite of, but because of who I am. The irony for me, of course, is how that place is located in the past, with that dead boy who loved me enough to smuggle books.

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Title	:	Dragonsong (Harper Hall of Pern #1)
Author	:	Anne McCaffrey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by Aladdin Paperbacks (first published March 1976)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dragons. Fiction

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The Dragon books were part of the network of books that introduced me in my teen years to fantasy and sci-fi and on re-reading them years later it is encouraging to find them still as well written as I remember them. The plots still as riveting, the world-building still as thrilling and the characters still as good - well, maybe just a tiny bit more teen angst than I look for these days, but otherwise just as good!In Dragonsong we follow the adventures of Menolly the youngest daughter in a sea

This is the BEST book I've read this year. I'm actually not sure I can explain my love for this book but I'm going to try. I've been a little disgruntled with the fantasy genre (especially ya fantasy). I'm not a fan of the over emergence of vampires, fairies and angels. The Game of Thrones helped redeem adult fantasy for me and Dragonsong has totally redeemed my love of ya fantasy. I never picked up this series as a teen and I wish I had. Dragonsong is the first book in the Harper Hall trilogy

Marisol and I are rereading and reviewing Pern. Our Harper Hall trilogy review is here: http://fablecroft.com.au/miscellaneou...

I've had this book forever, but had never actually read it, and it ended up being a short book for a busy month, as well as fitting in with several of my reading projects: (1) YA (2) books owned but unread for literally decades (3) older SF and fantasy by women (before 2000 or so). This one is from 1978.I will start by apologizing to anyone who loved this book as a kid and who remains fond of it today.... I'm sorry. Well, let's press on.Life in Half-Circle Hold on Pern is dour and humorless,

There is nothing like snuggling under the covers with one of your favorite books on a rainy day. I love this book, unconditionally, so don't expect a fair review from me. This is the book that led to my discovery of both sci-fi and fantasy as genres, it opened up the world to me, at the time I was eleven but a decade (+) later I still enjoy it.The book was written for an arguably younger audience than any other set of books in McCaffrey's Pern series. There is no sex, minimal violence, the

This book focuses on Menolly who lives in a fishing hold. She is talented musically with a fine voice and is able to play many instruments. However, her father does not support her in her talent and in fact tries to hamper her since she is a girl. Menolly is such a lovely character that I loved the first time I read these and that warm and fuzzy just came back again on the reread. She runs away from the hold and is caught out in threadfall. She takes refuge in a cave during threadfall and there

A brief forward to the review: Dragonsong is the first book in Anne McCaffreys Harper Hall trilogy. The series is generally catalogued as childrens (at least in the nypl catalog) but is really for any readers. Like many of McCaffreys novels, its set in the world of Pern. I havent read anything but this trilogy yet, but am pretty sure these novels (from the 1970s) operate as prequels to the other more adult oriented novels. Oh, and I absolutely loved the entire trilogy.On to the review:Menolly