Graceling

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Label

Graceling

Statement of responsibility

Kristin Cashore

Creator

• trueCashore, Kristin

Contributor

• Mathison, Jeffery C
• Riggs, Cathy
• Harcourt, Inc

Book designer

• Riggs, Cathy

Cartographer

• Mathison, Jeffery C

Publisher

• Harcourt, Inc

Subject

• Young adult fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction
• Voyages and travels
• trueViolence
• Adventure and adventurers
• trueAdventure and adventurers
• Conduct of life
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2008
• trueFantasy
• Fantasy
• Fantasy -- Juvenile fiction
• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction
• Friendship
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGirl warriors
• Girls -- Conduct of life
• Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueKidnapping
• Kings and rulers
• Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction
• Murder
• Murder -- Juvenile fiction
• truePolitical corruption
• truePrinces
• trueRescues
• trueRulers
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• trueTeenage girls
• trueUncles
• trueTeenage romance
• Young adult works
• Young adult fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Young adult works
• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile works

Language

eng

Summary

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king

Member of

• trueGraceling Realm
• Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, 1

Storyline

• trueAction-packed
• trueWorld-building
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueRomantic

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueStrong female
• trueLikeable
• trueAuthentic

Award

• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2012.
• Green Mountain Book Award (Vermont), 2011.
• Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature, 2009.
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2011.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2012
• Amelia Bloomer List, 2009
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2008
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2009
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2008.

Awards note

William C. Morris YA Debut Finalists, 2009.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

"Ages 14 and up"--Jacket

Interest level

• UG
• UG
• High School

LC call number

PZ7.C26823

LC item number

Gr 2008

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Reading level

• 5.3
• 5.3
• 4.5

Series statement

Graceling Realm

Series volume

bk. 1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

juvenile