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The House of the Scorpion Reprint Edition
Contributor(s): Farmer, Nancy (Author)

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ISBN: 0689852231     ISBN-13: 9780689852237
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2004
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Annotation: To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by sinister characters in this National Book Award winner.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy
- Young Adult Fiction | Technology
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001256594
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 660(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.75 lbs) 380 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 05/17/2004 pg. 53
Kliatt 07/01/2004 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2004
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 61393
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 15.0
 
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Publisher Description:
This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.

Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium--a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster--except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.


Contributor Bio(s): Farmer, Nancy: - 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 also won the National Book Award and the Printz Honor. Other books include The Lord of Opium, The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, The Islands of the Blessed, Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, and three picture books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and now lives with her family in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.
 
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