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The House Of The Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
May 2004
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Featuring: Matt
400 pages
ISBN: 0689852231
EAN: 9780689852237
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Young Adult | Science Fiction
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.
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