| The House of the Scorpion Repackage Edition Contributor(s): Farmer, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689852223 ISBN-13: 9780689852220 Publisher: Atheneum Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy - Young Adult Fiction | Technology |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001056594 |
| Lexile Measure: 660 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 400 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 61393 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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 Alacr n was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patr n, 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 Patr n. El Patr n 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 Patr n'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 Alacr n 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. |