The House of...The Scorpion

The House of...The Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer

The House of...The Scorpion
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Author: Nancy Farmer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2003-04-02
ISBN: 0786250488
Number of pages: 515
Publisher: Thorndike Press

Book Reviews of The House of...The Scorpion

Book Review: All I can say is wow.
Summary: 5 Stars

After reading this book over and over again and not getting the least bit bored, I realized that this was my favorite book ever. The sad thing is, I don't even own it. Once again...all hail Nancy Farmer.

Books I reccomend:
The Ear The Eye and The Arm
Halo: The Fall of Reach

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Summary of The House of...The Scorpion

A National Book Award Winner
A Newbery Honor Book

Some see Matt as a beast. But for El Patrón, Matt is a guarantee of eternal life, for they share the same DNA. Matt tries to understand his existence while facing sinister characters.

An Accelerated Reader® title for Ages 11 to 14.


Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of Matteo Alacran, a feudal drug lord in the country of Opium, which lies between the United States and Aztlan, formerly Mexico. Field work, or any menial tasks, are done by "eejits," humans in whose brains computer chips have been installed to insure docility. Alacran, or El Patron, has lived 140 years with the help of transplants from a series of clones, a common practice among rich men in this world. The intelligence of clones is usually destroyed at birth, but Matt, the latest of Alacran's doubles, has been spared because he belongs to El Patron. He grows up in the family's mansion, alternately caged and despised as an animal and pampered and educated as El Patron's favorite. Gradually he realizes the fate that is in store for him, and with the help of Tam Lin, his bluff and kind Scottish bodyguard, he escapes to Aztlan. There he and other "lost children" are trapped in a more subtle kind of slavery before Matt can return to Opium to take his rightful place and transform his country.

Nancy Farmer, a two-time Newbery honoree, surpasses even her marvelous novel, The Ear, The Eye and the Arm in the breathless action and fascinating characters of The House of the Scorpion. Readers will be reminded of Orson Scott Card's Ender in Matt's persistence and courage in the face of a world that intends to use him for its own purposes, and of Louis Sachar's Holes in the camaraderie of imprisoned boys and the layers of meaning embedded in this irresistibly compelling story. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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