Graceling

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Label

Graceling

Statement of responsibility

Kristin Cashore

Creator

• trueCashore, Kristin

Contributor

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

Book designer

• Riggs, Cathy

Cartographer

• Mathison, Jeffery C

Publisher

• Harcourt, Inc

Subject

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

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Young adult fiction, American
• Young adult fiction
• trueFantasy fiction
• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• trueHigh fantasy
• Young adult works
• Fantasy fiction, American
• Adventure stories, American

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

• Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, 1
• trueGraceling Realm

Theme

• trueCourt intrigue

Storyline

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

Tone

• trueRomantic

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueLikeable
• trueStrong female
• trueAuthentic

Award

• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2012.
• 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

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

730

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. 3

Study program name

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

Target audience

juvenile