From Tamora Pierce, the third book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet,
honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.
Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of
Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove
herself in a duel to the death--either she will be killed or she will be
inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie
ahead. As her mysterious fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the
tribe's first female shaman--despite the desert dwellers' grave fear of
the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient
tribal customs of the desert tribes--for their sake and for the sake of
all Tortall.