Nancy Farmer Books In Order

Matteo Alacran Books In Publication Order

  1. The House of the Scorpion (2002)
  2. The Lord of Opium (2013)

Sea of Trolls Books In Publication Order

  1. The Sea of Trolls (2004)
  2. The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)
  3. The Islands of the Blessed (2009)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Do You Know Me (1993)
  2. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (1994)
  3. The Warm Place (1995)
  4. A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
  5. A New Year’s Tale (2013)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Runnery Granary (1996)
  2. Casey Jones’s Fireman (1999)
  3. Clever Ali (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Full-Blooded Fantasy (2005)

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Nancy Farmer Books Overview

The House of the Scorpion

From the unique combination of the timelessness of an old and seemingly forgotten world deftly mixed with the futuristic reality of a brave new world comes a chilling tale of ethics and mortality that is thought provoking and macabre, and yet strangly fascinating…
Is this the way of the future? Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn’t a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence trully means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron’s power hungry family to the brain deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium’s poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, Matt longs for escape. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn’t even suspect.

The Sea of Trolls

THE CHILDREN

FROM The Sea of Trolls

BRAVE THEIR WORST

NIGHTMARES — UNDERGROUND.

Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity 790 AD, Britain, Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It is unforgettable — for the boy and for readers — as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack’s village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo a hobgoblin king; kelpies; yarthkins; and elves not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend. Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclusion in The Islands of the Blessed in 2009.

The Land of the Silver Apples

THE CHILDREN

FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS

BRAVE THEIR WORST

NIGHTMARES — UNDERGROUND.

Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity 790 AD, Britain, Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It is unforgettable — for the boy and for readers — as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack’s village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo a hobgoblin king; kelpies; yarthkins; and elves not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend. Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclusion in The Islands of the Blessed in 2009.

The Islands of the Blessed

THE CHILDREN

FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS

BRAVE THEIR WORST

NIGHTMARES — UNDERGROUND.

Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity 790 AD, Britain, Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It is unforgettable — for the boy and for readers — as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack’s village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo a hobgoblin king; kelpies; yarthkins; and elves not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend. Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclusion in The Islands of the Blessed in 2009.

Do You Know Me

Although he is continually getting into trouble, Tapiwa’s uncle becomes her best friend when he comes from Mozambique to live with her family in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Tendai, his little sister and their younger brother escape from their splendid home to explore their dangerous city. Tendai is motivated by wanting to earn a scouting badge, and he desperately wants to prove himself, as their overprotective father has always placed tight restrictions on what the siblings can and can’t do.

The Warm Place

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to ”The Warm Place” that is home.

A Girl Named Disaster

Nhamo’s mother is dead, and her father is gone. She is a virtual slave in her small African village. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo learns that she must marry a cruel man with three other wives and decides desperately to run away. Alone on the river, in a stolen boat, she is swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake. There, she battles drowning, starvation, and wild animals, and comes to know Africa’s mystical, luminous spirits. Nancy Farmer’s masterful storytelling makes this a truly spellbinding novel and readers will be cheering for Nhamo from beginning to end. A gripping adventure, equally a survival story and a spiritual voyage. Nhamo is a stunning creation while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An unforgettable work. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Runnery Granary

Mrs. Runnery has a granary and a big problem something is eating her grain! Is it weevils? Rats? Wolves? Or worse? Wise old Granny Runnery knows exactly what it is and how to eliminate it. ‘A charming tale that story hour crowds are sure to eat up.’ School Library Journal.

Clever Ali

Three time Newbery Honor Book author Nancy Farmer joins bestselling artist Gail de Marcken in this enchanting, original tale told in the tradition of the Arabian Nights. Ali is finally old enough to join his father in tending pigeons for the evil Sultan of Cairo. The boy is given a pet pigeon, but warned NEVER to feed it too much, lest it become spoiled and lazy. But Ali feels sorry for his hungry pet and disobeys. When the overfed bird becomes greedy and ruins a plate of the Sultan’s cherries, Ali is in big trouble! Now he has only three days to replace the Sultan’s 600 cherries from the snowy mountains of Syria. Only then can he save his father from the dreaded Oubliette: a deep pit where a giant demon is waiting!

Full-Blooded Fantasy

Simon Says Kids Free one of a kind collection featuring selections from eitht of the best fantasy novels published today. Excerpts from The House of the Scorpion, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Pendragon.

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