![]() The Hero and the Crown, a prequel to The Blue Sword, was published in 1984. ![]() ![]() McKinley described her inspiration as "Kipling's story 'The Man Who Would Be King', as funnelled through John Huston's reading of it as a film, and crossbred with The Sheik", the latter of which she had hated and only read accidentally, thinking it would be something quite different. It received the Newbery Honor Award, the Horn Book Fanfare award, the ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults award, the ALA Notable Children's Book award and the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults award. The Blue Sword was first published in 1982 by Greenwillow Books. When she meets Corlath, the mystical king of the Damarian Hillfolk, Harry discovers her own magical powers and a destiny that leads her to save Damar from invasion. ![]() It follows Angharad "Harry" Crewe, a recently orphaned young woman, to a remote desert outpost in colonized Damar, where her brother is stationed in the Homeland military.
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