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| Title | : | The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran #1) |
| Author | : | Nancy Farmer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 380 pages |
| Published | : | May 2004 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fiction. Fantasy. Teen. Adventure |
Nancy Farmer
Paperback | Pages: 380 pages Rating: 4.1 | 75506 Users | 6220 Reviews
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With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans. At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, "How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born." "You were harvested," Tam Lin reminds him. "You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her." To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA.
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| Original Title: | The House of the Scorpion |
| ISBN: | 0689852231 (ISBN13: 9780689852237) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Matteo Alacran #1 |
| Characters: | El Patron, Tam Lin, Maria Mendoza, Chacho, Fidelito, Ton-Ton |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2003), National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2002), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2003), Buxtehuder Bulle (2003), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2003) South Carolina Book Award for Junior Book Award (2006), Grand Canyon Reader Award for Teen Book (2005), Rhode Island Teen Book Award (2004), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2004), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Senior (2005), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2003), Lincoln Award Nominee (2008), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2005), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for YA (2005) |
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The House of the Scorpion was just wow. Wow. If this is the norm of the books Im going to read 2012, than Im in luck (and just wow will be part of my vocab). It is a brilliant work of art. I had not ever read a Nancy Farmer book (though twice now I rented The Sea of Trolls but never got to it). I was very happy with this book, begging everyone I know to read it. They didnt yet. The main villain (I dont really call any of them the main villain because without even one childhood it wouldnt seemThis book has been on my goodreads shelf since pretty much the beginning of time... so why on earth have I been wasting my time with every other poorly-constructed dystopian world instead of reading this? I have absolutely no excuse: I own a copy, it's won practically every award going, and all my reviewer friends have been constantly singing its praises. Perhaps I am way more influenced by title and cover than I like to admit - though there's nothing actually wrong with either, I still feel
A really hit and miss book, with some terrific ideas and terrible plotting.The main character, Matt, is a clone of the world's biggest drug kingpin, the 140+ year-old El Patron. Matt lives in El Patron's sprawling estate and is hated by most of the residents there, aside from his care-taker Celia and El Patron himself, who is raising Matt for his own sinister reasons. Soon, these reasons are revealed and Matt's only hope is to escape.This felt like it should have been at least twice as long. The
Going into this book, I was not all that excited because I normally don't read Sci-Fi books. When I started reading I was getting reeled in by the authors use of figurative language and suspense buildup. I was attached to certain characters and by the end of the book I felt like Tam Lin and I were old friends. This book is a great read for you if you enjoy reading about struggles, setbacks and rewards. House of the Scorpion has a little bit of all of those.
The House of the Scorpion is about Matteo Alacran, who is the clone of another Matteo Alacran. The original Matteo Alacran, also known as El Patron, was a power-hungry drug-dealer that created an evil empire filled with eejits, or people that have no will. Due to Matt being a clone, he is always treated differently usually for the worse. He is trapped in the Alacran estate, a large mansion filled with people that have a personal distaste for him. Although he does make a few friends, such as
This book is great because:1. It is a young adult book about, I kid you not, every social policy and -ism you can think of--drugs, slavery, cloning, classism, socialism, EVERYTHING2. I read all 400 or something pages in a day3. The story is really unique and I wasn't really sure what was going to happenAnyways, it is basically the story of the clone of the biggest drug lord in a country solely made up of drug farms. A few people on the book's goodreads page mentioned that the writing was not
First read this in 2004 when my daughters were in middle school. Its an excellent young adult novel about a young man, Matt, who discovers he is clone in a futuristic society somewhere between America and Mexico. How Mattcloned to be the spare parts for a wealthy elderly mangrows into adolescence and discovers the truth of his identity, learns who his friends and foes are, the rules of the system in which he lives and how to survive is an incredible story. It really helps you look at human life
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