With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief w...
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Nov 20, 2008
Deepasri
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This is an AWESOME book. A tale of bravery, loyalty, friendship,sorrow, and magic. ( And mystery,too) I can't stop reading!! Try this book if you like mystery and magic.
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Feb 08, 2012
Visi
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I've gone back to this book so many times over the years that my copy is actually starting to fall apart. This is the book that got me started with fantasy, and I still follow Tamora Pierce's blog and watch out for any new books by her over ten years later.
This is one of those books that definitely changed my life, it's also one of those books I go back to when I need to read something easy, to forget the world around me for a bit. These books have gotten me through everything from t More...
This is one of those books that definitely changed my life, it's also one of those books I go back to when I need to read something easy, to forget the world around me for a bit. These books have gotten me through everything from t More...
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Sep 30, 2011
James
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I came across this book in the library, and it sounded interesting, so I checked it out. There are four books in the original series, followed by another series of four more called The Circle Opens. It finishes off with a standalone named The Will of the Empress.
Born into a hillbilly family, Tamora Pierce understood what it meant to be “American poor.” She fell in love with books at a young age and started writing when she was only 6 years old. It is said that many of her stories conta More...
Born into a hillbilly family, Tamora Pierce understood what it meant to be “American poor.” She fell in love with books at a young age and started writing when she was only 6 years old. It is said that many of her stories conta More...
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May 20, 2011
Levina
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Hmm. Since the Tortall books are some of my favorite books of all time, and I've been looking for new things to read lately, I thought, why not Tamora's other universe?
Unfortunately, this series seems to be aimed at a younger age group, and, I don't know, it just didn't grab my interest. I'm barely sixteen, but it's been a while since I was able to really get into a children's book. Everything is too soft and sugarcoated for me; I'm that girl who reads books about the starving, dying, and More...
Unfortunately, this series seems to be aimed at a younger age group, and, I don't know, it just didn't grab my interest. I'm barely sixteen, but it's been a while since I was able to really get into a children's book. Everything is too soft and sugarcoated for me; I'm that girl who reads books about the starving, dying, and More...
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Apr 14, 2011
Elinor
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One of my favorites. This is the book that introduced me to Tamora Pierce. My mom was at the library and looking for books by another author (Meredith Pirce perhaps? Something like that, books about vampires in an alternate universe) and found Sandry's Book instead. She brought it home to me and I dove in, knowing even in my adolescent angst that if my mom knows anything about anything, it's books!
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Feb 14, 2011
Pikachu
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i love romance but sometimes it's nice to take a break from the drama and step back to traditional young adult fantasy about kids coming into their powers and learning about themselves, too. one reason i love tamora pierce so much is because there's always good lessons in the books: learning how to accept your flaws and others', the value and application of a good work ethic, and tolerance for outsiders' cultural norms. it's allegorical without being preachy; i love that.
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Dec 29, 2010
JoLee
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I'm on to a new Tamora Pierce series. This one, Circle of Magic takes place in a world not entirely unlike that of Tortall. When I'm reading the book I feel like I'm just in another part of the Tortallan world. The first book in this series introduces four children, all of whom can do magic in a somewhat unusual way. Tamora Pierce, in the interview at the end of the book, said she wanted to tie Briar, Sandry, Tris, and Daja's magic to more ordinary activities like knitting and gardening.
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Aug 17, 2010
Margaret
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When I first read these in 2005, I'd been meaning to get around to Tamora Pierce for a long time, as she's so often mentioned as a great YA fantasy author. I happened to pick up the Circle of Magic books (Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, Daja's Book, Briar's Book) first, largely because I found one used somewhere (Pierce seems hard to find used, perhaps due to popularity). The series is about a group of four children who each have a different magical talent; they're each discovered by the mage Niko a
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Jul 19, 2010
Emma
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I enjoy novels with magic and love when a novel has a message of hope. This novel is about four child/teens who all have unfortunate backgrounds or past life style and they are taught that their differences don’t make them worse than other, they make them better. That sometimes, knowing what it is like to be poor or unloved or feared can help you be kind to others, can help you be more than anyone ever would have expected of you, because you understand the feeling yourself and you can learn to b
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Dec 15, 2009
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Forgive me if I spell names incorrectly. I listened to the unabridged audio version of this story. The four young characters are lively and the full cast reading makes the story come to life.
The book centers around four young outcasts named Daja (a Trader), Briar (a street thief), Sandry (a noble) & Tris (a commoner). All, for one reason or another, are basically on their own and have experienced far too much pain and disappointment in their young lives. They’re unwanted, unloved, and More...
The book centers around four young outcasts named Daja (a Trader), Briar (a street thief), Sandry (a noble) & Tris (a commoner). All, for one reason or another, are basically on their own and have experienced far too much pain and disappointment in their young lives. They’re unwanted, unloved, and More...
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Oct 20, 2010
Telyn
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I checked the Full Cast Audio Book version of this out of the library and enjoyed it very much. I've never read anything by Pierce before and found a lot to like in this book for young readers. I especially enjoyed the detailed descriptions of various crafts, and can vouch for Pierce's accuracy when she describes the process of pulling gold wire—my father was a goldsmith, and worked exactly the same way. I also enjoyed a detailed lesson on meditation—not something one often runs into in a childr
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Apr 23, 2010
Mark
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This was different from other books I've read. It's about a group of kids (who don't know each other, at first); each is an outcast in one form or another. They come together and learn. That's pretty much what it's about: lots of character development and learning experiences. There's not like some monumental thing to drive the plot (like an evil villain trying to take over the world, or some wild thing with politics and war). It's just about the characters—and, of course, the discovery and lear
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Jun 17, 2009
Hannah
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A wonderful beginning to the Circle of Magic series! "The Magic in the Weaving" may be a slightly slower start when compared to the Alanna, Keladry and Daine series, but I actually preferred the steady pace with which certain elements of the plot are revealed. The different uses of magic is really highlighted here; I've rarely been so interested in reading the bare bones of how a character's own magic works, but Sandry's weaving of light into thread made me hold my breath.
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Jan 10, 2012
Becca
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Sandry's book is an exciting tale of misfits, magic, danger, and the beginnings of a friendship. Sandry, Daja, Tris, and Briar are all in dire need of help. Whether it is mark of an outsider to their own people, protection turned entrapment, the third brand of an x, or loss of control, they are in desperate need of Winding Circle. After they find themselves in a cabin secluded from they rest of Winding Circle, they learn that they all are specialized mages. Daja learns to utilize her gift of fir
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Sep 08, 2010
Abby
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In this new(ish) series by Tamora Pierce, four teens are thrown together after they are discovered to have similar magical talets: Briar with plants, Daja with metalwork, Tris with weather and Sandry with thread. Sandry's book introduced the series and sets the stage for the following books, each focusing on the group and the individual it features.
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An ARDENT Tamora Pierce fan (Alanna is my HERO!), I stopped reading her a while back when I felt her book More...
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Mar 05, 2009
mari
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Three young kids from different walks of life are brought together at the Winding Circle by the mage, Niko. Sandry, Briar, Tris and Daja are so different from each other but they all have magic within them that they need to develop and control. During there time in Discipline House, they also find time to become friends.
There wasn't much more to the book than the development of the characters. Most of the book is spent getting to know their backgrounds and their magical abilities. Th More...
There wasn't much more to the book than the development of the characters. Most of the book is spent getting to know their backgrounds and their magical abilities. Th More...
Apr 03, 2009
Lindsay
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Mar 07, 2011
Jessica
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This is the first book that got me interested in Tamora Pierce. Thus why I chose to re-read it. She is able to create such a unique world, with such rich detail, and yet make it completely approachable and relatable. This book in particular captures the theme of growing up and of change. These adolescent mages are just starting to come into their powers, and they must learn to control them. Their flighty, immature, and often ignorant behaviors are exactly what I remember from junior high sc
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Jan 02, 2012
Katrina
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Tamora Pierce's Sandry's Book, from the Circle of Magic series was a compelling, adventurous and quick read, with strong and interesting female characters, and I'm looking forward to the other three books. Sandry and three other kids (who've had a pretty rough year) are brought to Winding Circle Temple by Niko, a senior mage, to learn their crafts and refine/control their natural magical abilities. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could probably read this book to Madeline already (she's
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Oct 29, 2009
Dee
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Have you ever had the feeling that when you've just about lost everything, something incredible and amazing comes along?
Meet the mages (magical people)of Winding Circle--Sandry, a noble who works wonders with thread; Daja, a trader girl who is gifted at metalcraft; Briar, a former theif who can communicate with plants; and Tris, a girl who doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, but can control the weather. They've all lived tough lives (even Lady Sandry), but come together with their incre More...
Meet the mages (magical people)of Winding Circle--Sandry, a noble who works wonders with thread; Daja, a trader girl who is gifted at metalcraft; Briar, a former theif who can communicate with plants; and Tris, a girl who doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, but can control the weather. They've all lived tough lives (even Lady Sandry), but come together with their incre More...
Oct 26, 2011
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Of the four Circle of Magic books, Sandry's Book is the one I had the most and fondest memories of. Sandry's Book, more than any other book in the quartet, this one focuses on the characters more than the actual events that take place. In the other Circle of Magic books, there is one central goal throughout the book (although perhaps not the focus of the entire book). In Sandry's Book, however, the focus is on each of the four characters' developme More...
Of the four Circle of Magic books, Sandry's Book is the one I had the most and fondest memories of. Sandry's Book, more than any other book in the quartet, this one focuses on the characters more than the actual events that take place. In the other Circle of Magic books, there is one central goal throughout the book (although perhaps not the focus of the entire book). In Sandry's Book, however, the focus is on each of the four characters' developme More...
Nov 13, 2011
Colleen
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Introductory books can be either tedious, or some of the most interesting reading in the series, and Sandry's Book is the latter as it introduces us to the main characters of the Circle of Magic, their idiosyncratic teachers, and a very particular system of living in the magical community of Winding Circle.
The series is for younger audiences than most of Pierce's, but does a great job of stitching together disparate personalities and walks of life, developing the characters, and ensu More...
The series is for younger audiences than most of Pierce's, but does a great job of stitching together disparate personalities and walks of life, developing the characters, and ensu More...
Oct 30, 2011
Katie
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This book has been one of my favorites since I first read it years ago. I was first introduced to Tamora Pierce through her series that take place in the Tortall universe. The Circle of Magic series is directed at a younger audience than those, but this does not detract from the vivid detail and the fascinating concept of magic rooted in crafts. As an adult, the timeline at the beginning of the novel isn't clear to me, but that doesn't detract from its beauty, in my opinion. Each character has a
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Nov 05, 2011
Rebecca Alora
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I'm going to start off by saying this is one of my favorite series. The Circle series makes me fall in love with it every time I decide that I need to read another one of its books.
Yes, this is a kid's book, but seriously? I found it just as enjoyable now as I did when I was thirteen (which was when I first read it). I love these characters, the story, the drama, and everything. It was like greeting old friends again. It's a really comforting feeling.
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Yes, this is a kid's book, but seriously? I found it just as enjoyable now as I did when I was thirteen (which was when I first read it). I love these characters, the story, the drama, and everything. It was like greeting old friends again. It's a really comforting feeling.
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Nov 01, 2011
Vicki
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Read by Tamora Pierce, Bruce Coville & Full Cast Audio
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Length: 5.8 Hours
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If you have not yet listened to a Full Cast Audio recording, you haven't yet heard audiobooks as they were meant to be. Each character has his or her own voice actor, reading the lines of dialogue or thoughts as if they were in the story itself. Tamora Pierce has been most supportive of the FCA style of work, reading as narrator for not only her own books, b More...
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Length: 5.8 Hours
Listened at 1.8x Speed
If you have not yet listened to a Full Cast Audio recording, you haven't yet heard audiobooks as they were meant to be. Each character has his or her own voice actor, reading the lines of dialogue or thoughts as if they were in the story itself. Tamora Pierce has been most supportive of the FCA style of work, reading as narrator for not only her own books, b More...
Jun 11, 2011
Susanne
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This is a rather thin and lovely YA book. It takes a refreshing look at magic along with a more traditional one. The four youths are great with all their strengths and weaknesses, they feel human and they use their powers in really imaginative ways. The worldbuilding is also well done, no infodumps or the like, it just comes when it comes.
This is the kind of book I would have loved as a kid, it even has that boarding school element that I loved so much at that age.
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This is the kind of book I would have loved as a kid, it even has that boarding school element that I loved so much at that age.
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Aug 06, 2011
Neill
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When the smallpox epidemic happened Sandry was locked in a room to protect her. When the person who was locked in the room was killed by a mob no one knew and Sandry was stranded. The stress helped her to begin to develop her magic but it was her rescue by a mage that allowed her to receive the knowledge and the training she needed. There she met three other young gifted people that were also lifted from desperate circumstances. The four were taught that the qualities that separated them fro
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May 10, 2010
Andrea
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A group of very different young people who have lost much in the last year are thrown together in Discipline cottage where they discover they all have one very unusual thing in common.
This is the first time I've read one of Tamora Pierce's "Circle" books after tearing through her entire Tortall series last summer. This series is definitely for a younger audience. So far, I prefer the adventure of the other series, but I enjoy the characters in this one, too, and I'm sure th More...
This is the first time I've read one of Tamora Pierce's "Circle" books after tearing through her entire Tortall series last summer. This series is definitely for a younger audience. So far, I prefer the adventure of the other series, but I enjoy the characters in this one, too, and I'm sure th More...
Sep 05, 2011
Joy
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I found this series at the library and was happy to see that all four were available, so I picked them up. I was pleasantly surprised by the story. It was a little disjointed for the first 30 pages or so until the characters come together. The thing I don't like about juvenile literature sometimes is when kids go behind adults backs to do things and duh! they wind up in trouble. The kids in this book had their individual issues that they dealt with on their own and that gave them trouble, bu
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Jan 29, 2009
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