At no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you decide to make a purchase through these links. **Please note that the Amazon links above are affiliate links. I’ll be a knight.” In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of. Edwards Award.“From now on I’m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. “Why Tamora Pierce Doesn’t Shy Away From Sex In YA Lit” ( Refinery29, 2018) From Tamora Pierce, the first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Book 1 Shelve Alanna: The First Adventure Book 2 Shelve In the Hand of the Goddess Book 3 Shelve The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Book 4 Shelve Lioness. “What a Cross-Dressing Lady Knight Taught Me About Gender and Sexuality” ( Electric Literature, 2017) “Gender in the Song of the Lioness Series” ( FanFiction, 2011) “She’s a Man, Baby!” ( Forever Young Adult, 2016) Daine is another amazing woman, strong and funny and undeterred by misfortune. “Happy 35th Anniversary, Alanna the Lioness” ( Book Riot, 2018) The Immortals series builds on what Pierce started with Alanna in the earlier books. Exceptionalism in Alanna: The First Adventure” ( The Fandomentals, 2017) The book raises questions of identity, gender, conformity, and whether or not violet eyes are really ever found in nature.įollow Claire on Twitter and Instagram Listen to the Here to Make Friends podcast! In it, our heroine Alanna seeks to circumvent the expectations of girls in her society by dressing as a boy named Alan and taking her twin brother’s place at the palace, where she can begin training to becoming a knight. This book holds all four novels in the series of the same name: Alanna: The First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, and Lioness Rampant.

In Episode 44, Alli is introduced for the first time to Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet, and HuffPost’s Claire Fallon joins to discuss the first book in the series, aptly named Alanna: The First Adventure.

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