Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning...

The alien Catteni value strength and intelligence in their slaves--and Kristin has managed to survive her enslavement while hundreds of other humans have not. But her trial has just begun, for now she finds herself part of a massive experiment. The aliens have discovered a new world, and they have a simple way of finding out if it's habitable: drop hundreds of slaves on the surface and see what happens.

If they survive, colonization can begin. If not, there are always more slaves.

Author: Anne McCaffrey
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 06/01/1996
Series: Freedom Novel #1
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780441003389
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 88821 / Freedom's Landing


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/1998 pg. 1619

About the Author
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world's most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.