Does Nancy Farmer have any other good books besides "The Sea of Trolls"?

Answer 1

Nancy Farmer has also written:
- The House of the Scorpion
- The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (I read this one; great book)
- A Girl Named Disaster (also a great book)
- The Warm Place
- Clever Ali
- Do You Know Me
- Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb (picture book for kids)
- Runnery Granary (picture book for kids)

Answer 2

The Dead Sea Scrolls were Jewish, part of the writings of the Essene Jews. None of the books you mentioned were included in the Dead Sea Scrolls. You're talking about the Nag Hammadi Library, also known as the "Gnostic Gospels". The reason they're not in the canon? Because they're Gnostic, which was considered a heresy by the Church.

Answer 3

Yeah...there's a great book called The House of the Scorpion by Farmer and it was a National Book Award Winner


A Review From School Library Journal

Gr 6-10-In a possible near future, the United States and Mexico have dealt with their continuing border troubles by forming a third country called Opium. It is run by drug lords who control opium production using the labor of humanoid "eejits" with computer chips in their brains. Matt has spent the first six years of his life in isolation until the day he is discovered by three children and taken to the big house. The adults treat the boy like an animal, but with superficial deference once they realize he is a clone of El Patr-n, the supreme ruler of Opium. Scientific advances have made it possible for the man to live to be 142, via transplanted organs harvested from clones, most of whom have their brains stunted at birth. Matt was spared this fate and is educated as a conceit of El Patr-n. At 14, with the death of the old man, he is able to flee from Opium. He is caught and detained in a work camp/orphanage, but with the help of his new friends, he escapes and returns to Opium to try to right the wrongs of the past. The novel's well-described, exotic setting is a background for imaginative science fiction that looks at the social implications of technological advances. The multilayered story raises many issues, and doesn't always resolve them in obvious ways. Fans of Farmer's work will seek out this title. Some readers may be put off by its length, but those who dive in will find it worth the effort.-Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc."

Also a book called, A Girl Named Disaster and it was a National Book Award Finalist.

Here's a review from Publisher's Weekly:

"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 healer) identifies the cause of the illness as the work of an ngozi (avenging spirit) who had been slain by the orphan Nhamo's father. The muvuki decrees that Nhamo must marry the ngozi's surviving brother-a diseased and brutal man. Urged by her grandmother, Nhamo runs away, in hopes of finding her father's family in Zimbabwe. The two- or three-day boat trip, however, turns into a months-long odyssey through wilderness, where Nhamo must call upon all the skills she has ever learned in order to stay alive. Farmer overlays this suspenseful tale with a rich and respectful appreciation of Nhamo's beliefs. Without slowing the pace or changing her tone, she interpolates folktales that illuminate Shona culture; she also casts Nhamo's ordeal in terms of the spirit world, so that Nhamo confronts not just wild animals but witches, and communes not just with memories but with ancestral spirits. Nhamo herself is a stunning creation-while she serves as a fictional ambassador from a foreign culture, she is supremely human. An unforgettable work. Ages 11-up. "



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Answer 4

She also wrote a book called "A Girl Named Disaster" about an unwanted girl's journey to find her grandfather. It was excellent because Disaster, the main character, communes with the spirits of her dead mother and a dead fisherman who guide her on her journey.

Answer 5

The House of the Scorpion, Its a great book, I read it.