Nancy Farmer
Författare till The House of the Scorpion
Om författaren
Serier
Verk av Nancy Farmer
The Sea of Trolls Trilogy: The Sea of Trolls; The Land of the Silver Apples; The Islands of the Blessed (2016) 5 exemplar
Origami Mountain [short story] 2 exemplar
Remember Me 2 exemplar
Castle Othello [Short Story] 1 exemplar
The Mole Cure 1 exemplar
Rare Antique A Girl Named Disaster 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 819 exemplar
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 220 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1941-07-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Yuma, Arizona, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Manipal, India
Pretoria, South Africa
Harare, Zimbabwe (visa alla 8)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Menlo Park, California, USA - Utbildning
- Reed College (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley - Yrken
- children's book author
- Priser och utmärkelser
- National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Printz Honor
Buxtehuder Bulle
Newbery Honor (three times)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Found: Children's SciFi set in Africa i Name that Book (november 2023)
Recensioner
Listor
Best Dystopias (1)
Absolute Power (1)
Which house? (1)
To Read (1)
Latin America (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 25
- Även av
- 10
- Medlemmar
- 15,115
- Popularitet
- #1,514
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 441
- ISBN
- 274
- Språk
- 16
- Favoritmärkt
- 33
Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged."
"Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers.
"Of course. People don't make ships and swords unless they intend to use them."
The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack and his little sister, Lucy, are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and his fierce young shipmate, Thorgil. With a crow named Bold Heart for mysterious company, they are swept up into an adventure-quest that follows in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings.
Other threats include a willful mother Dragon, a giant spider, and a troll-boar with a surprising personality -- to say nothing of Ivar the Boneless and his wife, Queen Frith, a shape-shifting half-troll, and several eight foot tall, orange-haired, full-time trolls. But in stories by award-winner Nancy Farmer, appearances do deceive. She has never told a richer, funnier tale, nor offered more timeless encouragement to young seekers than "Just say no to pillaging."… (mer)