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Original Title:	Terrier
ISBN:	037581468X (ISBN13: 9780375814686)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.tamora-pierce.com/about_beka.html
Series:	Beka Cooper #1, Tortall, Tortall (chronological order) #1 , more
Characters:	Beka Cooper
Setting:	Tortall
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2012), West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Older Readers (2009), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2009)

Terrier (Beka Cooper #1) Hardcover | Pages: 581 pages

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Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce's memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper - a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy....

Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, commonly known as "the Provost's Dogs," in Corus, the capital city of Tortall. To the surprise of both the veteran "Dogs" and her fellow "puppies," Beka requests duty in the Lower City. The Lower City is a tough beat. But it's also where Beka was born, and she's comfortable there.

Beka gets her wish. She's assigned to work with Mattes and Clary, famed veterans among the Provost's Dogs. They're tough, they're capable, and they're none too happy about the indignity of being saddled with a puppy for the first time in years. What they don't know is that Beka has something unique to offer. Never much of a talker, Beka is a good listener. So good, in fact, that she hears things that Mattes and Clary never could - information that is passed in murmurs when flocks of pigeons gather ... murmurs that are the words of the dead.

In this way, Beka learns of someone in the Lower City who has overturned the power structure of the underworld and is terrorizing its citizens into submission and silence. Beka's magical listening talent is the only way for the Provost's Dogs to find out the identity of this brutal new underlord, for the dead are beyond fear. And the ranks of the dead will be growing if the Dogs can't stop a crime wave the likes of which has never been seen. Luckily for the people of the Lower City, the new puppy is a true terrier!

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Title	:	Terrier (Beka Cooper #1)
Author	:	Tamora Pierce
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 581 pages
Published	:	October 24th 2006 by Random House
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction

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This story is a diary of sorts, detailing the first cases that "Puppy" Beka Cooper deals with as a trainee to become a "Dog" (the equivalent of a police force in this society). Things start out as her mentors investigate the murder of the young great-grandson of the local crime boss. Beka has ties to the toddler's mother who gives Beka a strange stone during her visit. The boy's murder threatens to set off a turf war, providing several potential suspects, and seems to have something to do with

I think this may have been a HORRIBLE place to start in the universe. I don't know if all of the books are written in this same format, but the jumping around with constant referral to terms and things that had no explanation to a new reader were really annoying and made it not a very enjoyable read. I found a list of chronological order and wanted to start there and I guess that was a bad choice. This book was also written for a fairly young audience on the young adult spectrum so I really

Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper series, Book One: Terrier. I'm beginning to, finally, recognize patterns in Tamora Pierce's heroines. When I was a kid I identified with her books so strongly I couldn't possibly step back as a writer to see her tricks. Now, with the benefit of age and distance, I read this book with new eyes. Her main characters always have some kind of fatal flaw - in Beka's case it's fear of public speaking and chronic shyness, for Alana it was cold and spiders, for Kel it was

I reread this book for a book club I'm going to and I was very excited to reread it. And it was very good! I really enjoyed it. It was especially really neat because when I read the books that include Pounce as a kid, I didn't really have a context to understand cat behavior, but now that I'm living with two cats, I like, actually know what cats are like, and it makes the already enjoyable experience of reading about Pounce at least ten times more enjoyable. One thing about this book that my

Terrier is just another example of how great an author Tamora Pierce is. The writing is very detailed and although it is hard to believe that a girl would be so diligent in writing a journal it didn't really faze me. Beka is a great kick-butt, female protangonist. She is smart, caring, dedicated, and tough. It's because of this why Beka is called a Terrier. The imagination of Pierce proves to be limitles as she decribes Tortall. It has knights, magic, beggars, Dogs, slaves, mages, etc. There is

Spoilers for all Tortall books follow:I have a love-and-hate relationship with Tamora Pierce's Tortall books. I found the Alanna quartet poorly written, enjoyed The Immortals, absolutely adored Protector of the Small ( so much so that Kel is now one of my favorite fictional characters ever), liked the Trickster's duo but also found it extremely problematic in certain respects. And then I moved onto Terrier which I'm sorry to say is my least favorite Pierce book that I've read so far. Pierce

What is one word I can use to sum up the book hmm... probably AWESOME ! Seriously there isn't a lot of books that can do that (at least for me). Beka Cooper is the most kick butt, cool heroine I've encountered in all my reading days.The book was just as good the second time around. At first I was wary of reading it again thinking it might not be as enjoyable this time around. Obviously I was wrong. I even caught myself looking ahead to see what happened, and then I would remind myself that I