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Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books: The Ear the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which, in 2002, also won the National Book Award. Other books include Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, the Trolls trilogy, three picture books for young children... show more

Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books: The Ear the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which, in 2002, also won the National Book Award. Other books include Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, the Trolls trilogy, three picture books for young children and an adult novel, A New Year's Tale. Nancy Farmer grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and lives with her family in Arizona. The Lord of Opium, sequel to The House of the Scorpion, will be published in Fall 2013.
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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 6 years ago
Another one from NPR's Ultimate Backseat Bookshelf. I've owned this book forever. My grandma gave it to me, and I just never got around to reading it. It would not have appealed to me as a kid, and I had to resort to skimming several times because the story was too graphic. The writing felt inc...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 9 years ago
I loved The House of the Scorpion and was really excited to find out that it has a sequel. The Lord of Opium is about Matt, a 14-year-old clone who has just inherited the largest drug empire in the world. Matt wants to make a few changes to the country he now rules. He wants to stop growing opium ...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 9 years ago
You know that you’re too old for YA when you don’t say “What a great adventure” while reading a book. Instead, you want to reach through the pages and pull the child characters to safety. This book definitely awakened some protective-parent instinct in me that I didn’t know I possessed. Matteo Ala...
TackyReading
TackyReading rated it 10 years ago
I read this back in 6th grade and loved it! I just found out there's a sequel and I could not be more excited!
Libromancer's Apprentice
Libromancer's Apprentice rated it 10 years ago
The House of the Scorpion is so highly hailed and with an intriguing concept, so I had high hopes for this book. I found the book incredibly unpleasant to read. I'm not rating the book because I acknowledge that I am not the target audience, and that may be part of the issue. I also thought the ...
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