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Award-winning novelist Nancy Farmer writes "large-scale stories in which children battle inner demons and ferocious villains in a series of perilous adventures through hostile but richly conceived landscapes," according to Roger Sutton, writing in t he New York Times Book Review. The author of juvenile novels and picture books that demonstrate her talent as a storyteller as well as her interest in African culture, Farmer spent seventeen years in central Africa, years that p roved to be critical to her writing career. "The character, viewpoint and zany sense of humor of the people I met there have had a major effect on my writing," she once commented, Indeed, many critics have applauded her work for her characterizations, hum or, and depiction of locale. A sure measure of her success is that The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm and A Girl Named Disaster were both named Newbery Honor books and have been translated into other langua ges, while her 2002 title, The House of the Scorpion, set on the borderland between the United States and Mexico, won the National Book Award for young people's literature.
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