The house of the scorpion / Nancy Farmer.
By: Farmer, Nancy [auhtor].
Contributor(s): Gordon, Russell [Cover designer].
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TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2004], ℗♭2002Edition: 1st Atheneum books for Young Readers pbk. ed.Description: 380 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780689852237; 0689852231.Subject(s): Human cloning -- Juvenile fiction | Human cloning | Science fiction | Cloning -- FictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Science fiction. | Young adult works. | Science fiction. | Young adult fiction.DDC classification: FIC FAR | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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KH8 Senior School Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC FAR (Browse shelf) | Available | 3KHSL000101065 |
Includes author's note and a reading group guide.
Youth: 0 to 6: In the beginning -- Little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the Alacr©Łn estate -- Mar©Ưa -- Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 -- El Patr©đn -- 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 D©Ưa de los Muertos -- Castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- House of eternity.
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patr©đn, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
12 up
Winner of National Book Award.
Newbery Honor Book.
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor Book.
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