Bantam: 7th printing April 1980 paperback (hardcover was in 1977.) Wraparound cover by Elizabeth Malczyincki, 240 pages,$2.50 cover price. Condition is VG+: tight and almost square; spine is flat or very slightly dished (with some raised wrinkles - as printed); age tanning is mild and uniform. No stamps, marks or writing - another clean copy.

All three books of Anne McCaffrey's "Harper Hall" seqence take place at the same time - often in the background, but sometimes shaping events - as the "adult" Pern books like Dragonquest and The White Dragon. After Dragonflight, I find them to be McCaffrey's most enjoyable books, and have re-read my hardcovers many times. They are suitable for adults or younger readers, and I recommend them highly.

Dragonsinger - Menolly has immense musical talent, but when she reaches Harper Hall, she must prove it to doubters before she can find her place. The MasterHarper, Robinton, has his own ideas on how the Harper Hall can influence events on Pern, and recruits Menolly to be one of his agents, and his personal apprentice. She befriends Piemur (an apprentice), and Silvina (the headwoman), but finds that others resent her having so many fire-lizards, or don't know where to place her - as a hold-daughter student, or an apprentice of Harper Hall. Some of the Masters are open, yet others are forbidding or gruff, and Menolly wonders if she measures up to their expectations. Yet for one as talented as Menolly, who had been forbidden to use her talent in her Sea-Hold home, Harper Hall seemed like heaven - for here she was encouraged to use and explore those very talents which had brought her beatings.