title: Terrier (The Legend of Beka Cooper, Book 1)
author:  Tamora Pierce 
description: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/?&amp;node=233931011">Tamora Pierce</a> has been creating strong, appealing heroines for teen fantasy fans for years, creating 2 main universes to house her multiple series. With <i>Terrier</i>, Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. <i>--Daphne Durham</i> <br />
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  _**TERRIER**_
  
  
  
  
  
  _**Beka Cooper 01**_
  
  
  
  
  
  _**By**_
  
  
  _**Tamora Pierce**_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2006 by Tamora Pierce
  
  
  
  
  
  Jacket art copyright © 2006 by Jonathan Barkat
  
  
  
  
  
  Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of
  Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  
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  _**Acknowledgments**_
  
  
  
  
  
  With thanks to Mallory Loehr