The House of the Scorpion EPUB
by Nancy Farmer
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Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people.
To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, 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 exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly 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, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive.
But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong.
It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer:The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2013
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- ISBN:9781471120381
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2013
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- ISBN:9781471120381
