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Lady Sandrilene fa Toren is locked away in a dark room with a fading oil lamp. Earlier, she was magically locked into the room only to have the single person who knew where she was to be killed moments later by a mob envigorated by the fierce plague that killed her parents. Sandry, even though she knows there is no chance of anybody finding her, is concerned about the flickering light. Unknowingly doing her first piece of magic, Sandry traps the remaining light in a simple braid. More?

As the book begins and progresses, Tris hears voices on the wind telling her seemingly useless bits of information. In an effort to cool herself off in the summer's cruel heat, she and her three "mates"- Sandry, Daja, and Briar- head up to the wall that encloses Winding Circle. On the wall, Tris hears more voices and then suddenly a lighthouse nearby blows up. The four know that the two are related. More?

Daja's Book is the third installment in the Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce, a young adult fantasy novel. Daja Kisubo an outcast to her people after she was the lone survivor of her family ship's wreck, and a smith mage in training, travels with her three friends to the north of Emelan, to a valley plagued with drought and forest fires. While she and her friends are in North Emelan, she creates a living metal vine. Polyam wirok of Tenth Caravan Idaram, bids on the vine. More?

The main protagonist of the book is Briar Moss, a young ex-thief and "green" or plant mage, having ambient magic with all forms of plant life. Through his eyes the book explores themes of poverty and social injustice, as a deadly plague named the Blue Pox strikes The Mire, the poorest quarter of Emelan's capital city, Summersea. To Briar this is familiar territory, having been first a street-rat and then a thief in Deadman's District, the poorest quarter of his native Hajra, before his magic was discovered by the great mage Niklaren Goldeye and he was taken to Winding Circle, a temple school for ambient mages. More?

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