Acorna has fingers wit only two joints and her pupils become narrower whenever she feels sad or low. Her silvery hair resembles the hair of a horse and her feet ends have cloven hooves as that of a unicorn. Her unique qualities allow her to learn, adapt and improvise very quickly. She is also able to find out chemical imbalances and help plants grow.

Acorna has some unique powers that normal people do not generally possess and the ability to purify air and water and talk in a telepathic manner. Although she has the appearance of a human, besides the horn on her forehead, she is not quite a human. Her hair is silver in color that embraces her as a graceful, tall and a young lady in the latter part of the series. The following are the characters she introduced in the series:Īcorna is a little girl who has a unicorn-like horn on her forehead and a pair of funny looking tiny feet. The series was very well received by the readers and brought a lot of fame to Anne McCaffrey and established her as an author. In the first novel of the series, she strives to know the reason behind the destruction of her family and race and undergoes a journey full of ups and downs in understanding her individual self. Being introduced as an orphan, Acorna is believed to have some special powers such as healing wounds and curing people, easily detecting mineral deposits, finding out venom and a lot of other powers. Anne was assisted first by Margaret Ball for completing the first two novels of the series and later by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough for the remaining eight novels from 1999 to 2007. The series consists of ten very interesting novels based on the life journey of a fictional character named Acorna.

The Acorna series is a fantasy and science fiction novel series written by well known author Anne McCaffrey, whose first novel got published in the year 1997.

Acorna books in order