The Hero and the Crown
Winner of the 1985 Newbery Medal. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1985.
AERIN COULD NOT REMEMBER A TIME WHEN SHE HAD NOT KNOWN THE STORY; SHE HAD GROWN UP KNOWING IT.
It
was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into
marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told
that she turned her face to the wall and died of despair when she found
she had borne a daughter instead of a son.
Aerin was that daughter.
But there was more
of the story yet to be told; Aerin's destiny was greater than even she
had dreamed – for she was to be the true hero who would wield the power
of the Blue Sword...
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