TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farmer,Nancy
TI  - The house of the scorpion
SN  - 0689852231 (pbk.)
AV  - PZ7.F23814 Ho 2004
U1  - 813.54 21
PY  - 2004///, c2002
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon Pulse
KW  - Human cloning
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Young adult fiction
N1  - "A Richard Jackson book."; Youth: 0 to 6: In the beginning -- The little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the Alacrán estate -- María -- Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 -- El Patrón -- 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: 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 Día de los Muertos -- The castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- The house of eternity
N2  - In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
ER  -