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Author Farmer, Nancy, 1941-

Title The house of the scorpion / Nancy Farmer
Edition First edition
Published New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2002]
New York ; London : Simon Pulse, 2004
©2002
©2002

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 MELB CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Far/Hot  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Far/Hot  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Far/Hot  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Far/Hot  AVAILABLE
Description 380 pages ; 24 cm
Series Matteo Alacran ; 1
Farmer, Nancy, 1941- House of the scorpion ; 1
Matteo Alacran ; 1
Contents Youth : 0 to 6 -- In the beginning -- The little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the Alacrán estate -- María -- Prison -- Middle age : 7 to 11 -- El patrón -- Teacher -- The eejit in the dry field -- The secret passage -- A cat with nine lives -- The giving and taking of gifts -- The thing on the bed -- The lotus pond -- Celia's story -- Old age : 12 to 14 -- A starved bird -- Brother wolf -- The eejit pens -- The dragon hoard -- Coming-of-age -- Esperanza -- Blood wedding -- Betrayal -- Age 14 -- Death -- A final good-bye -- The farm patrol -- La vida nueva -- The lost boys -- A five-legged horse -- The plankton factory -- Washing a dusty mind -- When the whales lost their legs -- Ton-ton -- Found out -- The boneyard -- The shrimp harvester -- El día de los muertos -- The castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- The house of eternity
Summary 880-01 In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
880-01 In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patro�n, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
Notes Sequel: The lord of Opium
"A Richard Jackson Book."
Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2003
Audience Young Adult
Notes 660 Lexile
Accelerated Reader blank 5.1 15.0 61393
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.1 15.0 61393
Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.1 23 Quiz: 32029 Guided reading level: Z+
English
Newbery Honor Book, 2003
Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2003
National Book Award Winners, 2002
Subject Human cloning -- Fiction.
Science fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Human cloning -- Juvenile fiction.
Cloning -- Juvenile fiction.
Science fiction, American.
Human cloning -- Fiction.
Children's stories.
Cloning.
Cloning -- Fiction.
Cloning -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Genre/Form Science fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Young adult fiction
Juvenile materials.
Science fiction
Curriculum resource.
Juvenile materials
Young adult books
Curriculum resource
Young adult works.
Science fiction.
LC no. 2001056594
ISBN 0689852223
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