Carole Frechette, Author, Carole Frichette, Author, Nancy Farmer, Author , trans. from the French by Susan Ouriou. Red Deer $9.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-88995-254-6
Set in Montreal, Fréchette's (The Four Lives of Marie) compact novel presents a sometimes sketchy, sometimes polished portrait of the friendship between two teens. As the tale opens, Véro thinks she spies her friend, Dolorès (nic
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Nancy Farmer, Author . Atheneum/Jackson $17.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-689-85222-0
Farmer's (A Girl Named Disaster; The Ear, the Eye and the Arm) novel may be futuristic, but it hits close to home, raising questions of what it means to be human, what is the value of life, and what are the responsibilities of a society. Readers
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Nancy Farmer, Author . S&S $7.99 (380p) ISBN 978-0-689-85223-7
In our Best Books citation, PW
wrote, "In this eerily realistic depiction of society 100 years hence, the wealthy class harvests the organs of clones to prolong their lives. Farmer explores vital and soul-searching questions about what it...
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Nancy Farmer, Author . Atheneum/Jackson $17.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-689-86744-6
Readers will want to sail through these nearly 500 pages to find out what happens to young Jack and his sister, Lucy, kidnapped from their homeland by a Viking crew led by Olaf One-Brow. The two then travel across the sea where Ivar the Boneless,...
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Nancy Farmer, Author Orchard $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-531-09539-3
Farmer (The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm; The Warm Place, see p. 84) returns to Africa for the setting of this gripping adventure, equally a survival story and a spiritual voyage. When cholera decimates a village in Mozambique, a muvuki (traditional...
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Nancy Farmer, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037956-3
In a starred review, PW described this fantasy/adventure about a giraffe snatched from her African home as ""laced with dry humors and memorable characters... a pure delight."" Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Nancy Farmer, Author Puffin Books $7.99 (309p) ISBN 978-0-14-038635-6
This 1997 Newbery Honor book, which is set in Africa, is both a survival story and a spiritual voyage. ""[The heroine] is a stunning creation--while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An...
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Nancy Farmer, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-531-06888-5
Farmer, whose The Ear, the Eye and the Arm received a 1995 Newbery Honor, confirms her place among the most inventive YA writers of the day with this rollicking tale. Ruva, a baby giraffe kidnapped by poachers, despairs of ever again seeing her...
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Nancy Farmer, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-037641-8
Praising Farmer as ""one of the best and brightest authors for the YA audience,"" PW gave a star to this novel about three siblings in search of adventure in a futuristic Zimbabwe; a 1995 Newbery Honor book. Ages 10-14. (Oct.)
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Nancy Farmer, Author Scholastic $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-531-06829-8
Picking up where she left off in her highly successful debut, Do You Know Me, Farmer uses her knowledge of Africa to imagine a city in 23rd-century Zimbabwe, combining old traditions and speculative technology with delightfully entertaining results.
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Nancy Farmer. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4424-8254-8
This highly anticipated sequel to Farmer’s National Book Award–winning The House of the Scorpion (2002) begins soon after the funeral of the drug lord El Patrón and the murder of nearly everyone who attended the event. Fourteen-year-old Matt, the...
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Nancy Farmer, Author, James Bernardin, Joint Author Phyllis Fogelman Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1929-3
It's all aboard for adventure as Newbery Honor author Farmer (The Eye, the Ear and the Arm) produces an exciting blend of history and imagination. Here, readers see the legendary train engineer Casey Jones through the eyes of his fireman, Sim Webb....
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Nancy Farmer, Author, Joseph A. Smith, Illustrator, Jos A. Smith, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-14187-5
Newbery Honor author Farmer (The Ear, the Eye and the Arm) here spins a medieval setting and a folktale-like aura into a winsome yarn. For years, the Runnerys' business has run like clockwork: Mrs. Runnery stores the farmers' grain in her stone...
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Nancy Farmer, Author, Gail de Marcken, Illustrator , illus. by Gail de Marcken. Scholastic/Orchard $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-37014-1
In Farmer's (The House of the Scorpion
) pleasing tale set in long-ago Cairo, Ali's father holds a crucial position as the Sultan's pigeon keeper. The pigeons carry messages across Egypt to and from the ruler. When Ali overfeeds one of...
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Nancy Farmer, Author, Jon Foster, Illustrator . S&S/Jackson $18.99 (479p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0737-4
This final chapter of the trilogy begun in The Sea of Trolls
gathers steam slowly, but has the same enchanting quirkiness of its predecessors. Jack, the apprentice bard, is now 14 and living with Thorgil, the surly shield maiden, and their mentor,...
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Nancy Farmer, Author, Shelley Jackson, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-036946-5
Uncle Zeke comes to live with Tapiwa's family in Zimbabwe in this impressive first book; in a starred review, PW praised Farmer for her ""astute ear for dialogue, deft hand with plot twists and keen dry wit."" Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Nancy Farmer, Author, Shelley Jackson, Illustrator, Ellen Jackson, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-531-05474-1
First-time novelist Farmer serves up a genial family tale with an out-of-the-ordinary setting: Zimbabwe. Fleeing bandits in his Mozambique village, Tapiwa's Uncle Zeka has come to stay. Bush-savvy but unversed in city ways, this unusual gentleman...
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