This is the story of this tree-man and how he deals with being human. The knowledge is given that halfway around the world there would be a tree who all of a sudden was a man to keep the balance of nature. The second short story is Elder Brother and was hinted about in one of The Immortal Quartets when Mage Numair has to do a devastating bit of magic and turns an enemy into a tree. The end of the story shows how she takes what she learns and puts it into practice to protect the honor of her sister and her family. She is a mere girl who watches the savannah animals around her and learns ways to fight from them. The basic premise of this story is learning to fight not from a teacher, but from the nature and animals around the main character. We are put into a familiar world with unfamiliar people. Based in the savannah outside of the Tortall kingdom, with a Shang warrior making his presence known in the last third of the story. The first short story is called Student of Ostriches and while it does not deal with any characters we may know from her other books it is placed in a location we are at least semi-know about. Many of the main characters are still female, but that is not the purpose of these stories, these stories take characters who are not centralized and puts them in a more center position. To rtall and Other Lands : A Collection of Tales, doesn’t focus on any particular character as it plays with many different characters in its many short stories. Most of her books have a very strong feminine main character who struggles through the world of men to show that they are just as good as any male. Tamora Pierce has been entertaining teens for years, especially those who are female.
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