title: The Song of the Lioness Quartet: Alanna: The First Adventure / In the Hand of the Goddess / The Woman Who Rides Like a Man / Lioness Rampant
author:  Tamora Pierce 
description: :<br />This series is sprightly, filled with adventure and marvelously satisfying.<i>School Library Journal</i><br /><br />Alannas world is a harsh one, but believeable. . . . This fantasy provides food for introspection as well as flights of imagination in a magical kingdom.<i>Kirkus Reviews<br /></i><br />Lively and enjoyable, with a strong, vigorous heroine.<br />T<i>he Horn Book Magazine</i> on <i>The Woman Who Rides Like a Man</i><br /><br />It has the appeal of good winning over evil and of the resilient courage of a believeably heroic female protagonist.<br /><i>The Bulletin</i> on<i> Lioness Rampant</i>
zlib_text: **ALANNA  
  The First Adventure**
  
  Books by Tamora Pierce
  
  Song of the Lioness Quartet  
   _Alanna: The First Adventure_ (Book I)  
   _In the Hand of the Goddess_ (Book II)  
   _The Woman Who Rides Like a Man_ (Book III)  
   _Lioness Rampant_ (Book IV)
  
  The Immortals Quartet  
   _Wild Magic_ (Book I)  
   _Wolf-Speaker_ (Book II)  
   _Emperor Mage_ (Book III)  
   _The Realms of the Gods_ (Book IV)
  
  SONG OF THE LIONESS ![image](Images/image00110.jpeg) BOOK I
  
  # **ALANNA**
  
  **The First Adventure**
  
  ![image](Images/image00111.jpeg) **_Tamora Pierce_**
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