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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... Winner of the Newbery Medal. "McKinley knows her geography of fantasy, the nuances of language, the atmosphere of magic..." -Washington Post "A work of considerable imaginative power." - Philadelphia Inquirer