Series
The Heroic Adventures of Kate
T. A. Barron · 3 novels · 1990–1994
T. A. Barron links three standalone novels around a resourceful girl named Kate confronting environmental threats through fantastical means. In Heartlight, Kate and her inventor grandfather race across space to save a dying sun; in The Ancient One, she travels five centuries into the past to defend an old-growth forest from the destructive creature Gashra. The Merlin Effect completes the loosely connected set, published together as the omnibus The Heartlight Saga.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Heroic Adventures of Kate at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Merlin Effectdarkest · calmest
- Heartlightbrightest
- The Ancient Onemost intense