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Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1963 she received her B.S. degree from Reed College, then enlisted in the Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their son, Daniel. Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country State County Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ... BS or bs is an abbreviation with multiple meanings, including: Bachelor of Science degree British Standard Bahamas (ISO country code) The postcode for Bristol, England A somewhat more polite abbreviation of bullshit A card game The Swiss canton of Basel_Stadt Shorthand for the backspace and the backspace control character Shorthand... Reed College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. ... It has been suggested that Crisis corps be merged into this article or section. ... Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. ...

Bibliography

Novels and novelette

• The Mirror (novelette) (1987)
• Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (1987)
• Do You Know Me (1993)
• Tapiwa's uncle (1993)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• Runnery Granary: A Mystery Must Be Solved-Or the Grain is Lost! (1996)
• A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb by James Bernardin and Nancy Farmer (1999)
• The House of the Scorpion (2002)
  • Excerpt from The House of the Scorpion - in Full-Blooded Fantasy: 8 Spellbinding Tales Where Anything Is Possible (2005)
• The Sea of Trolls (2004)
• Clever Ali (2006)
• The Land of the Silver Apples [sequel to "The Sea of Trolls"] Atheneum, (2007)
• The Islands of the Blessed, [sequel to The Land of the Silver Apples] (to be published in 2009)

A novelette (or novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. ... The Ear, the Eye and the Arm is a Newbery Honor book written by Nancy Farmer. ... A Girl Named Disaster is a 1996 novel by Nancy Farmer. ... The House of the Scorpion is a science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer published in 2002. ... The Sea of Trolls is a 2004 fantasy novel by Newbery Honor winning author Nancy Farmer. ... The Land of the Silver Apples is a fantasy novel by Nancy Farmer, released on August 21, 2007. ...

Short stories

• “Tapiwa’s Uncle” - in "Cricket" (February 1992)
• "Origami Mountain" - in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
• "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" - in A Wolf At the Door (2000)
• "Remember Me" - in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003)
• "Bella's Birthday Present" - in "Can You Keep a Secret" ed. Lois Metzger, Scholastic. (2007)
• "The Mole Cure" - in "Fantasy and Science Fiction" (August 2007)

Years Best Fantasy and Horror is a respected reprint anthology published annually by St. ... Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction is an award-winning[1] collection of short stories for young adults written by authors associated with Firebird Books, released on that imprint in 2003. ...

Awards

• 1995, Newbery Honor for The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• 1997, Newbery Honor for A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• 2002, National Book Award (U.S.), Young People's Literature category, for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Newbery Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany) for "The House of the Scorpion" (2002)
• 2003, Printz Honor for "The House of the Scorpion" (2002)

The Newbery Honor is a citation given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA). ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ...

External links

• Excerpts from a Locus Magazine interview with Nancy Farmer
• Nancy Farmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards
• Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing