Acorna's Quest

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name = Acorna's Quest
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image_caption = Original cover of Acorn's Quest
author = Anne McCaffrey with Margaret Ball
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country = United States
language = English
series = Acorna
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Eos
release_date = 1998
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 416 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-06-105790-8
preceded_by = Acorna the Unicorn Girl
followed_by = Acorna's People

"Acorna's Quest" is the second book in the "Acorna" series of fantasy novels. It was written by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball, and published in 1998. The book immediately preceding it in the series is "Acorna the Unicorn Girl" and it is followed by "Acorna's People" and "Acorna's World".

Plot synopsis

Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn and her "funny" feet and hands. And she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness.But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her "Uncle" Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected, and raised her, she sets off to find her people. No sooner does she leave than a mysterious craft appears, piloted by the Linyaari, a gentle race with telepathic powers.The Linyaari are roaming the galaxy, spreading the alarm about the deadly Khleev- and searching for a beloved little girl they had given up for lost, long ago...