A review by villianess
First Test by Tamora Pierce

4.0

Keladry wants so badly to be a knight, but being a girl, trying to qualify becomes more than a challenge, it becomes a quest. The rules being changed to allow girls into the training does not set well with the training master and he convinces the King to put Kel on a years probation which no page has ever had to do before. Kel is teased, tormented etc, as any girl trying to fit into a "man's" realm would be. Luckiiy she finds a kind mentor that stands by her side. Between that and her ability with birds, Kel helps in a great defeat over the spidrens.
She has to make a decission whether to come back to the pages training to be a knight or take the advise of her training master and not return since she is a girl growning into a young women.