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Dragonsong was one of the books cited when McCaffrey's "lifetime contribution in writing for teens" made her the 1999 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award.^[1]

Plot introduction

The primary protagonist of Dragonsong is Menolly, a fifteen-year-old girl living in a fishing "Hold" (underground village) in the fictional world of Pern. This novel starts seven years after Dragonflight, the first book set in the Pern universe, in which flesh and plant-eating Thread began to rain intermittently from a nearby planet. A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... Menolly is the most prominent character in Anne McCaffreys Harper Hall trilogy, which is connected to the Dragonriders of Pern series. ... Pern is a fictional planet in the universe created by science fiction writer Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels. ... Dragonflight is the first book in the long-running Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. ... Thread is the name of a deadly phenomenon that appears throughout Anne McCaffreys series of science-fiction novels about the fictional planet Pern. ...

Plot summary

Menolly, youngest daughter of Masterfisher Yanus, Sea Holder of Half-Circle Seahold, is a gifted musician who is punished for using her musical talents after Petiron, the Harper who encouraged her talent, dies. Finding life at the fishing community unbearable because her father does not allow her to express her musical talents, she runs away from home. Menolly takes refuge from falling Thread in a cave—and discovers hatching fire-lizards, the precursors to the great dragons that are Pern's first defense against Thread. Isolated from civilization in her cave and forced to care for nine baby fire lizards that she Impressed, Menolly quickly learns to be resourceful and independent. Freed from the restrictive role forced upon her by her family, she indulges her passion for music. The Firelizard is a fictional life form indigenous to the fictional planet Pern. ... It has been suggested that European dragon be merged into this article or section. ...

Menolly is out foraging one day when she is caught in Threadfall. She is rescued by a dragonrider, T'gran, who takes her to Benden Weyr. As she is adjusting to the liberal lifestyle of the Weyrfolk, she is discovered by Masterharper Robinton, the Masterharper of Pern. He discovers that she is the writer of a song that Petiron sent him and offers her a place at the Harper Hall as his apprentice. Benden Weyr was the second Weyr established on Pern, a fictional place Anne McCaffreys Dragonriders of Pern series. ... Robinton, also known as The Harper, was the MasterHarper of Pern in Anne McCaffreys Dragonriders of Pern series. ...

Themes

Fixed gender roles makes Menolly an outcast, as she is unskilled at traditionally feminine tasks and excels in the masculine field of music. She chooses the dangerous world outside the Hold instead of allowing her natural talents to be suppressed.^[2]

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