num_pages: 176
description: 
  Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: 

  Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat.. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this.
"Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants" - THE TIMES"Do yourself a favour and read ANYTHING by this Author, you won't be sorry" -- ***** Reader review"A real page turner" -- ***** Reader review"Delightful reading, well written, and wonderful characters, and Dragons! Lots of Dragons! Bliss!" -- ***** Reader review"A brilliant read" -- ***** Reader review*******************************************************************************A YOUNG GIRL'S DESTINY AWAITS...Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet.But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away.When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl around them and taught nine of them to sing.Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonsinger.
language: English
title: Dragonsong
titlecomplete: Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall, #1)
characters: Menolly
genres: Audiobook, High Fantasy, Childrens, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dragons, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 54649
places: Pern
series: Pern (Chronological Order), Pern , Harper Hall of Pern
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Bantam Books