Summary

" Forbidden to play music because she is a girl, Menolly who runs away from her hold when deprived of her music, gets caught in a couple of thread falls, lives in a cave with a family of the much sought fire lizards, and is at last taken in to a Weyr community where the people adopt command of the creatures and--being less sexist than the traditional Holdmaster father--encouraged musical ability." (Novelist Review)