[TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Viện sĩ Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008 Bài gởi: 828 Xin cảm ơn: 9 Được cảm ơn 16,466 lần trong 820 bài [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Nancy Yi Fan [HR][/HR]Nancy Yi Fan Nancy Yi Fan ( born August 26, 1993 traditional Chinese: 范禕) is a Chinese American author. She currently resides with her parents in Gainesville, Florida. Biography Nancy Yi Fan was born in 1993 and was raised in Beijing, China. At the age of 7, she moved with her parents to the United States. She is best known for writing her novel Swordbird at age 14. She enjoys doing martial arts and taking care of her three birds. She currently lives in Florida with her family. Writing Career Fan began her book when she was ten and had lived in Syracuse, New York, United States for only three short years. When she finished the manuscripts at age 12, she was able to find a publisher willing to print her adventurous novel with a 50,000-copy first printing. Birds, a lifelong passion of the author's, provided the inspiration for Swordbird. After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and September 11, Nancy wrote Swordbird as a way to convey her message of peace to the world. Sword Quest In 2008, HarperCollins released a prequel to Swordbird, called Sword Quest set 100 years before the time of Swordbird. (Theo Wiki : Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link) Xin giới thiệu với các bạn nhà văn tuổi trẻ tài cao này với hai tác phẩm: Swordbird (2007) và Sword Quest (2008). Swordbird is an epic new fantasy from twelve-year-old child prodigy Nancy Yi Fan, which will be published globally by HarperCollins. An exciting and action-packed tale of birds at war, this novel shows how friendship and courage can overcome tyranny. Stone-run Forest was once a peaceful place, but suddenly the local woodbird tribes, the Cardinals and Blue Jays, find themselves at odds -- precious food supplies have been stolen and fighting has broken out. Unbeknown to the woodbirds, the evil hawk Turnatt has been turning the tribes against one another as part of his evil strategy to take over the forest. He has already enslaved many captives from the surrounding tribes, who he's been forcing to build an evil fortress in which he plans to confine all the woodbirds. And the Cardinals and Blue Jays are to be his next victims. Thanks to an escaped slavebird Miltin, the woodbirds learn of Turnatt's strategy. But the only way to save the forest is to call on the legendary Swordbird -- the heroic bird of peace. Young birds Aska and Miltin fly off on a dangerous mission to find the Leasone gem -- paired with an ancient song from the Old Scripture, this is the only way to conjure Swordbird's help. But will they return in time to save the forest, or even make it back at all...When Nancy Yi Fan was in sixth grade she learned about terrorism and September 11th. That night she had a startling dream about birds at war. And the next day she started writing Swordbird to convey her message of peace to the world. [/TD] [/TABLE]
Sword Quest [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Viện sĩ Tham gia ngày: Jun 2008 Bài gởi: 828 Xin cảm ơn: 9 Được cảm ơn 16,466 lần trong 820 bài [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Sword Quest [HR][/HR]Sword Quest Wind-voice the half-dove, formerly enslaved, is now free, and Maldeor, the one-winged archaeopteryx, hungers for supreme power. Can Wind-voice and his valiant companions—Ewingerale, the wood-pecker scribe; Stormac, the myna warrior; and Fleydur, the musician eagle—save the future of their world? An exciting prequel to the New York Times bestseller Swordbird. [/TD] [/TABLE]
