Nancy Farmer
Autor/a de The House of the Scorpion
Sobre l'autor
Sèrie
Obres de Nancy Farmer
The Sea of Trolls Trilogy: The Sea of Trolls; The Land of the Silver Apples; The Islands of the Blessed (2016) 5 exemplars
Origami Mountain [short story] 2 exemplars
Remember Me 2 exemplars
Castle Othello [Short Story] 1 exemplars
The Mole Cure 1 exemplars
Rare Antique A Girl Named Disaster 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003) — Col·laborador — 819 exemplars
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009) — Col·laborador — 221 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1941-07-07
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Yuma, Arizona, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Manipal, India
Pretoria, South Africa
Harare, Zimbabwe (mostra-les totes 8)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Menlo Park, California, USA - Educació
- Reed College (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley - Professions
- children's book author
- Premis i honors
- National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Printz Honor
Buxtehuder Bulle
Newbery Honor (three times)
Membres
Converses
Found: Children's SciFi set in Africa a Name that Book (novembre 2023)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Which house? (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
To Read (1)
Absolute Power (1)
Latin America (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 15,146
- Popularitat
- #1,511
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 441
- ISBN
- 274
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 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."… (més)