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Nancy Farmer

Autor(a) de The House of the Scorpion

25+ Works 15,115 Membros 441 Críticas 33 Favorited
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Obras por Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion (2002) 5,937 exemplares
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (1994) 2,794 exemplares
The Sea of Trolls (2004) 2,395 exemplares
A Girl Named Disaster (1996) 1,612 exemplares
The Land of the Silver Apples (2007) 844 exemplares
The Lord of Opium (2013) 584 exemplares
The Islands of the Blessed (2009) 443 exemplares
The Warm Place (1995) 183 exemplares
Do You Know Me (1600) 90 exemplares
Full Blooded Fantasy (2005) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Clever Ali (1727) 76 exemplares
Runnery Granary (1996) 19 exemplares
A New Year's Tale (2013) 3 exemplares

Associated Works

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003) — Contribuidor — 819 exemplares
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000) — Contribuidor — 813 exemplares
Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (2009) — Contribuidor — 345 exemplares
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (2006) — Contribuidor — 237 exemplares
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009) — Contribuidor — 220 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
The Dark of the Woods (2006) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Can You Keep a Secret? (2007) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Is She Available? (2015) 13 exemplares

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Found: Children's SciFi set in Africa em Name that Book (Novembro 2023)

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FROM AMAZON: In the year 793, siblings Jack and Lucy are captured by fearsome Vikings with a thirst for battle and pillaging. Taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless, Jack and Lucy are sent on a perilous journey - full of dragons and giant spiders - deep into the magical kingdom of the trolls!

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."
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Gmomaj | 61 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
FROM AMAZON: The year is 2194, and Tendai, Rita, and Kuda are the children of Zimbabwe's wealthy and powerful chief of security. They've escaped from their father's estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare--and promptly disappear. Their parents call in the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, detectives whose exposure to nuclear waste has given them special powers. Together they must save the children from the evils of the past, the technology of the future, and criminals with plans much more sinister than anyone could have imagined.… (mais)
 
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Gmomaj | 52 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
This was a book that I got so invested in I forgot I was reading. It dealt with some intense, heavy issues of cloning and the definition of life that makes it feel more like an adult novel than YA. There were certainly some stretchy plot points, but overall I really liked it. The descriptions were well done and created a vibrant setting for the very real and flawed characters.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 237 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |
I am coming to the conclusion that Nancy Farmer can do no wrong. This book was a little more gruesome than I normally enjoy but was executed beautifully. I think Farmer tends to poorly match get characters with their supposed ages, this was supposed to be about a12 year old, but I felt he was older than that by his maturity and experiences. I love a bit character who is a lover not a fighter.
 
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Obras
25
Also by
10
Membros
15,115
Popularidade
#1,514
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
441
ISBN
274
Línguas
16
Marcado como favorito
33

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