Nancy Farmer
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Serie
Opere di Nancy Farmer
The Sea of Trolls Trilogy: The Sea of Trolls; The Land of the Silver Apples; The Islands of the Blessed (2016) 5 copie
Remember Me 2 copie
Origami Mountain [short story] 2 copie
Castle Othello [Short Story] 1 copia
The Mole Cure 1 copia
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1941-07-07
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Yuma, Arizona, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Manipal, India
Pretoria, South Africa
Harare, Zimbabwe (mostra tutto 8)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Menlo Park, California, USA - Istruzione
- Reed College (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley - Attività lavorative
- children's book author
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Printz Honor
Buxtehuder Bulle
Newbery Honor (three times)
Utenti
Discussioni
Found: Children's SciFi set in Africa in Name that Book (Novembre 2023)
Recensioni
Liste
Which house? (1)
To Read (1)
Absolute Power (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
Latin America (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 15,240
- Popolarità
- #1,499
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 441
- ISBN
- 274
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 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."… (altro)