The First Test
Ten years after the proclamation that girls are eligible for a page's training at the court of King Jonathan of Tortall, 10-year-old Keladry of Mindelan applies and is accepted, but on probation, a condition never forced on male applicants. She accepts the probation though not lightly, thinking it unfair. Even after the success of the Kings Champion, Alanna the Lioness everyone is skeptical of her ability to win the knighthood, the Lioness, Kel's idol, is even banned from seeing her so she can't use magic to help Kel. Kel makes her way through the difficult year, earning friends, enemy's and expensive gifts from an anonymous benefactor.

Page
Keladry begins her second year as the first "official" girl page. Kel has a busy few years as she takes up the cause of eliminating the hazing done to first year pages, defends her friends from bandits, teaches her new maid defence tactics, stays on top of homework and the greuling physical training needed to become a knight. When her maid is kidnapped on her examination day will Kel go to her examination or risk expulsion to save her maid?

Squire
14-year-old Keladry of Mindelan is ready to begin training as a squire after undergoing four grueling years as the first girl to be officially educated as a page. Disappointed that Lady Alanna does not choose her as a squire Kel worries that she won't be chosen at all or she will become the squire of a knight that stays home and does paper work. Kel is delighted when humorus, good-natured, down-to-earth Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own takes her on. Always in the back of her mind is her final test in the Chamber of the Ordeal, in which fourth-year squires must successfully face their greatest fears before becoming knights.

Lady Knight
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In the final thrilling installment of Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series ( First Test, Page, and Squire), our sturdy young heroine, Keladry of Mindelan (a.k.a. Kel), has finally been knighted. Never one to rest on her laurels, Kel champs at the bit, ready to tackle the horrific magic killing devices she was shown in the Chamber of the Ordeal during her knighthood initiation. The huge, insectlike machines, "made of iron-coated giants' bones, chains, pulleys, dagger-fingers and -toes, and a long whiplike tail," feed on the souls of dead children and are systematically killing off the citizens and warriors of Tortall.
Thoroughly disgusted to discover that not only is she not going to be assigned a combat post, but she has been placed in charge of a refugee camp instead, Kel, in her usual noble, stoic way, swallows her disappointment and sets out being the best refugee camp commander possible. Of course, destiny has a way of sneaking up on a young woman like Kel, and soon she is fulfilling the ordeal the Chamber set out for her... and then some.