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The house of the scorpion

Farmer, Nancy 1941- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0689852231 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780689852237 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    380 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon Pulse, 2004, c2002.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Richard Jackson book."
Formatted Contents Note: Youth: 0 to 6: In the beginning -- Little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the alacran estate -- María -- Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 -- El patró́n -- Teacher -- Eejit in the dry field -- Secret passage -- Cat with nine lives -- Giving and taking of gifts -- Thing on the bed -- Lotus pond -- Celia's story -- Old age: 12 to 14 -- Starved bird -- Brother wolf -- Eejit pens -- Dragon hoard -- Coming-of-age -- Esperanza -- Blood wedding -- Betrayal -- Age 14: Death -- Final good-bye -- Farm patrol -- La vida nueva: Lost boys -- Five-legged horse -- Plankton factory -- Washing a dusty mind -- When the whales lost their legs -- Ton-ton -- Found out -- Boneyard -- Shrimp harvester -- El dia de los muertos -- castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- House of eternity
Awards Note:
Winner of National Book Award
Newbery Honor Book
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor Book

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Subject: Human cloning Juvenile fiction
Science fiction
Genre: Young adult fiction.

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Watkinsville/Oconee County Library 		YA FARMER ( Send Text)
 31001002577352 YA Available
Cherokee Regional Library:
      Rossville Public Library 		YA FARMER ( Send Text)
 31010006313151 YA Available
Coastal Plain Regional Library System:
      Tifton-Tift County Public Library 		YA FARMER, NANCY ( Send Text)
 31013001442520 YA Fiction Available
Desoto Trail Regional Library:
      Blakely-Maddox Memorial Library 		AF FARMER ( Send Text)
 31017006221458 FIC Available
Henry County Library:
      Fortson Public Library / Hampton 		Y FARMER ( Send Text)
 31027006963132 Young Adult Available
Lake Blackshear Regional Library System:
      Cordele-Crisp Carnegie Library 		J Far N. ( Send Text)
 34712429081524 Juvenile Paperback Fiction Available
Middle Georgia Regional Library:
      Crawford County Public Library 		FARMER N ( Send Text)
 31033008587614 Adult Fiction Available
Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System:
      Moultrie-Colquitt County Library 		YF FARMER ( Send Text)
 31034005717485 FICTION - YA Available
Mountain Regional Library System:
      Mountain Regional Library 		YA FAR ( Send Text)
 31035005775696 YA Available
Northeast Georgia Regional Library:
      Rabun County Library 		YA FAR ( Send Text)
 31037006710607 YA Available
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