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Nancy Farmer's Books
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A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the nineteenth century. Since its publication in...Read More -
The House of the ScorpionMatteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields...Read More
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The Islands of the BlessedIn this much-anticipated conclusion to the Sea of Trolls trilogy, Notland is no place to seek one’s true calling. Or is it?Read More
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The Land of the Silver ApplesFrom three-time Newbery Honor author comes an exciting tale featuring the children from The Sea of Trolls braving their worst...Read More
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The Sea of TrollsJack 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....Read More
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Full-Blooded FantasyFull-Blooded Fantasy is a one-of-a-kind collection featuring selections from eight of the best fantasy novels published today. Experience the...Read More
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TwinCities.com, January 12, 2012
...in 20th-century children's literature, including Madeleine L'Engle, Kate di Camillo, Maurice Sendak, Tomie dePaola, Nikki Grimes, Nancy Farmer, Scott O'Dell and Walter Dean Myers, who was named this week by the Library of Congress as the third national...
East Valley Tribune, December 23, 2011
...Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald Middle School City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Ironman by Chris Crutcher Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry The Pigman by Paul Zindel Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer The...
Oldham Era, December 1, 2011
...to read is the focus of a new program at Oldham County schools. Submitted photo Reading Recovery teacher Nancy Farmer works with a student at Harmony Elementary. The district added the Reading Recovery partnership this fall, a short-term intervention...
Saanich News, November 29, 2011
...Other great picks for younger teen boys are D.J. MacHale’s Pendragon series, set in fictionalized Britain, Nancy Farmer’s The Sea of Trolls and the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld. From steampunk to Arthurian legends, there are fantasy tales to...
Lehigh Valley Express-Times, September 13, 2011
...?Dinosaur Roar!? by Paul Strickland; ?Frog and Toad are Friends? by Arnold Lobel; ?The Sea of Trolls? by Nancy Farmer Books to buy The following books are available at favorite bookstores. Nationally syndicated, Kendal Rautzhan writes and lectures on...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 12, 2011
...Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin The Giver by Lois Lowry Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Holes by Louis...
Baxter Bulletin, July 29, 2011
...they represent survival in extremely different places and situations. "A Girl Called Disaster" (Orchard Books, 1996) won author Nancy Farmer a Newberry Honor Award. The setting is Zimbabwe and Mozambique in modern times. The heroin, Nhamo, (translated...
Charlotte's Library, October 9, 2011
...Catherine Webb, at Bart's BookshelfSally's Bones, by MacKenzie Cadenhead, at We Be ReadingSea of Trolls, by Nancy Farmer, at One Librarian's Book ReviewsThe Secret War, by Matt Myklush, at Reading VacationSecrets of the Crown, by Adam Jay Epstein and...
Angieville, October 7, 2011
...Good Wine reviews I am the Messenger by Markus ZusakOne Librarians Book Reviews reviews The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer...
BOBBI'S BOOK NOOK, August 7, 2011
...Blood Red Road (Dustlands #1) Moira YoungReading level: Young AdultHardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Language: English ISBN-10: 1442429984 ISBN-13: 978-1442429987Nancy Farmer, author of The House of the Scorpion: “I absolutely loved...
Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog, July 18, 2011
...got to meet the author at BEA! And yay– the book is really good. It reminds me of Nancy Farmer’s books except without the sci-fi and set in modern-ish times instead of in the future (or past). The whole story is full of tension : tension about the...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 25, 2011
...Expert in Murder: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey by Nicola Upson The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer The Pendericks by Jeanne Birdsall The Pendericks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall Betsy and the Boys by Carolyn Haywood Angel Isle by...
Becky's Book Reviews, June 20, 2011
...Droppings. I completed Quest the First. 1. The Ropemaker . Peter Dickinson. 2. The Land of the Silver Apples . Nancy Farmer. 3. Inside Grandad . Peter Dickinson. 4. The Spellcoats . Diana Wynne Jones. 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. C.S. Lewis 6. The...
Redecorating Middle-Earth in Early Lovecraft, May 28, 2011
...Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher (2002-2003) Green Boy by Susan Cooper (2002)The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2002) The Books of Ember by Jeanne Duprau (2003-2008, ongoing) The Dirt Eaters by Dennis Foon (2003)Green Angel and Green Witch...
