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The house of the scorpion

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

Main Author:	Farmer, Nancy, 1941- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.
Subjects:	Cloning > Young adult fiction. Human cloning > Young adult fiction. Science fiction > Young adult.

Summary:	In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Physical Description:	380 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9781665918589 1665918586 9780689852220 0689852223 9780689852237 0689852231
Author Notes:	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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