sigh Menolly was so much more interesting when she was living alone with the fire lizards wasn't she. Although I did love the Harper Hall and wanted to live there quite badly b/c who wouldn't...trudging up all this I want to go dig up my old copies of the series. I distinctly remember the first time I read Dragonsong b/c it was an old hardcover copy that my teacher leant to me out of her locked glass cabinet in the back of the classroom. It was given with the admission that she trusted me a great deal to lend me one of her favorite childhood books. That made the series that much more special... How sad I'm finding myself nostalgic for 5th grade.