Rediscover this beloved Newbery Honor-winning classic, Featuring a brand-new cover and a foreword by Lois Lowry! Elana, a member of an interstellar civilization on a mission to a medieval planet, becomes the key to a dangerous plan to turn back an invasion. How can she help the Andrecians, who still believe in magic and superstition, without revealing her own alien powers? At the same time, Georyn, the son of an Andrecian woodcutter, knows only that there is a dragon in the enchanted forest, and he must defeat it. He sees Elana as the Enchantress from the Stars who has come to test him, to prove he is worthy. One of the few science fiction books to win a Newbery Honor, this novel continues to enthrall readers of all ages. Critical acclaim for Enchantress from the Stars: A Newbery Honor Book A Junior Library Guild selection An ALA Notable pick Winner of the Phoenix Award Finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award "Not just a novel for young adults but also one of the finest sf novels ever written--a classic of the genre. The only possible complaint one can make is that, after finishing it, you will likely find yourself disinclined for a while to pick up anything else in the genre for fear it will, as it were, taste of ashes. In sum, it is almost impossible to convey how good this book is. Please just read it." --John Grant, InfinityPlus "An original and charming exercise of one of science fiction's finest prerogatives, getting into other skins and seeing through (literally) alien eyes." --Ursula LeGuin, New York Times Book Review "A serious and thought-provoking novel, not SF for the sake of electronic gadgetry. . . . Combined with this is an adolescent love-story that is no romantic nonsense; it is realistic and moving. The story is full of drama and suspense . . . other science fiction stories [for young people] recently published seem all to pale in comparison." -- Times Literary Supplement, London "This is a wonderfully complex story that weaves together three different narratives, exposing three different levels of cultural development." --Tracy Wynne, Book Sense 76: Science Fiction and Fantasy Rediscoveries " Enchantress from the Stars . . . retains its vitality more than twenty years after its publication. The complex consideration of the ability of myth and science to provide explanation and meaning retains its relevance as the notion of the universe expands." --Kathy Piehl, "The Peril and Power of Love in Sylvia Louise Engdahl's Enchantress from the Stars " in The Phoenix Award, Alethea Helbig and Agnes Perkins, eds,. Scarecrow Press, 1996. Be sure to read the FAQ page for this book at my website, where you'll also find my recent essay for adult readers, "Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars ." These contain comments on things in the story that have been confusing to some readers.  And please note that although there is a second book about Elana, The Far Side of Evil , it is not a "sequel" but a very different kind of story that's not appropriate for readers below high school age. Sylvia Engdahl is the author of ten science fiction novels, including six Young Adult novels and four for adults, and has published a nonfiction book, The Planet-Girded Suns: The Long History of Belief in Exoplanets . She has also worked as a freelance editor of nonfiction anthologies for high school students. She is a strong supporter of space colonization, advocating for it in essays at a widely-read space section of her website as well as through her site spacequotes.com, which contains quotations about why humankind must expand into space. Her website is at sylviaengdahl.com.