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The house of the scorpion /Nancy Farmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (c)2002.Edition: first editionDescription: 380 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780689852220
  • 9781439106556
  • 9780689852237
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3556 .H687 2002
  • PS3556
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
Middle age: 7 to 11 : El patron ; Teacher ; The eejit in the dry field ; The secret passage ; A cat with nine lives ; The giving and taking of gifts ; The thing on the bed ; The lotus pond ; Celia's story -- Old age: 12 to 14 : A starved bird ; Brother wolf ; The eejit pens ; The dragon hoard ; Coming-of-age ; Esperanza ; Blood wedding ; Betrayal -- Age 14: Death ; A final good-bye ; The farm patrol -- La vida nueva : The lost boys ; A five-legged horse ; The plankton factory ; Washing a dusty mind ; When the whales lost their legs ; Ton-ton ; Found out ; The boneyard ; The shrimp harvester ; El dia de los muertos ; The castle on the hill ; Homecoming ; The house of eternity.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 2003.
  • Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2003.
Subject: 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.
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Fiction PZ7.F23814 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001807391

Sequel: The lord of Opium.

"A Richard Jackson Book."

Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2003.

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.

Youth: 0 to 6 : In the beginning ; The little house in the poppy fields ; Property of the Alacran estate ; Maria ; Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 : El patron ; Teacher ; The eejit in the dry field ; The secret passage ; A cat with nine lives ; The giving and taking of gifts ; The thing on the bed ; The lotus pond ; Celia's story -- Old age: 12 to 14 : A starved bird ; Brother wolf ; The eejit pens ; The dragon hoard ; Coming-of-age ; Esperanza ; Blood wedding ; Betrayal -- Age 14: Death ; A final good-bye ; The farm patrol -- La vida nueva : The lost boys ; A five-legged horse ; The plankton factory ; Washing a dusty mind ; When the whales lost their legs ; Ton-ton ; Found out ; The boneyard ; The shrimp harvester ; El dia de los muertos ; The castle on the hill ; Homecoming ; The house of eternity.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

Newbery Honor Book, 2003.

Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2003.

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