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The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

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Also by Robin McKinley:

Shadows, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Pegasus, November 2010
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Fire, September 2010
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Sunshine, October 2008
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Chalice, September 2008
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Beauty, August 2005
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Sunshine, December 2004
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The Hero and the Crown, October 2000
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The Blue Sword, October 2000
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Rose Daughter, December 1998
Paperback / e-Book

The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley

Damar Series #2
Puffin Books
October 2000
On Sale: October 2, 2000
Featuring: Aerin
246 pages
ISBN: 0141309814
EAN: 9780141309811
Kindle: B00OGWASFU
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Young Adult Fantasy

In Robin McKinley’s Newberry Medal–winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm

Aerin 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.”

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