num_pages: 176
description: Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy is a wonder-filled classic of the imagination. Dragonsong, the first volume in the series, is the enchanting tale of how Menolly of Half Circle Hold became Pern's first female Harper, and rediscovered the legendary fire lizards who helped to save her world.Menolly, a young fisher's daughter, had dreamed all her life of learning the Harper's craft. When her stern father denied Menolly's destiny, she fled Half Circle Hold just as Pern was struck again by the deadly danger of Threadfall, the killing ropes of death that fell from a nearby star. Taking shelter in a cave by the sea, Menolly made a miraculous discovery that insured her a new home among the master musicians of Pern's Harper Hall.
language: English
title: Dragonsong
titlecomplete: Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall, #1)
characters: Menolly
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Fantasy, Dragons, Audiobook
ratings_count: 54651
places: Pern
series: Pern , Pern (Chronological Order), 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