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Plot Summary of Acorna - Unicorn Girl 5
"Acorna is a unicorn girl, sent off in an escape pod from her people (because of an attack) and found by three asteroid miners. It's a very futuristic setting, but the miners don't know where she came from. She grows very quickly and the horn on her head has healing powers. She tries hard to fit into society on a planet after traveling around in space with the miners for two years, but cannot understand some forms of cruelty etc. Really good book... have to read the rest of the series to see what happens."
Summer Spirit, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena - money/gems/treasure
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding - coping with mental/magical powers
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Cultural problems, alien culture Yes
Culture clash- - feelings as an alien growing up among humans

Main Character
Identity: - Female Alien
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - healing
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Terrain - Forests - Space, need spacesuit - Domed/Underground City - Asteroid
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - a space station - futuristic human freighter/transport - one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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