Critics, however, have mentioned that the plot, which features a variety of good and evil magical sword-fighting birds, is extremely similar to Redwall and that the book suffers from a lack of originality. Oprah named Fan one of the world’s smartest kids and, in an interesting turn of events, Fan’s hero Jackie Chan also praised the book. It was a New York Times bestseller, and HarperCollins also published Sword Quest in 2008 and Sword Mountain in 2012. She boldly emailed it directly to the CEO of HarperCollins, who published it in 2007. She moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was seven years old, started writing her first novel, Swordbird, when she was eleven, and completed it a year later. Nancy Yi Fan is a Chinese-American author born in Beijing in 1993. She plans to write different kinds of books in the future and doesn’t want to be seen as a one-trick pony, saying to The Enquirer “I really don’t want people to think … I will always write this kind of book.
It’s been translated in 23 languages and was released in the United States in 2004 to quite negative reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal. The success or failure of the their mission will determine the fate of their world and the sick girl’s life.īujor was born in Romania but lives in France, where the book has sold 20,000 copies. The Prophecy of the Stones is about three teenage girls who come together to fulfill an ancient prophecy, while in a parallel world another girl lies dying in a hospital. Flavia Bujor wrote her first book when she was 12 and published it with HarperCollins when she was 14.
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