The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

ISBN 10: 0439577829 / ISBN 13: 9780439577823

Published by Scholastic, 2003

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Signs of wear and tear on spine of cover corners and slight edgewear on pages. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Seller Inventory # 17102340

Bibliographic Details

Title: The House of the Scorpion

Publisher: Scholastic

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

From the unique combination of the timelessness of an old and seemingly forgotten world deftly mixed with the futuristic reality of a brave new world comes a chilling tale of ethics and mortality that is thought provoking and macabre, and yet strangly fascinating...Is this the way of the future? Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn't a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence trully means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, Matt longs for escape. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.