Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Joan Marshall - Thursday May 08 2008 4:07 pm
Reviewed by Joan Marshall
Does the idea of human clones raise the hair on the back of your neck? What would they be used for? How would they feel? Or would they even have feelings?
The House of the Scorpion by takes a prescient look at some of these questions. The story follows the clone of a powerful drug lord from his cultivation to his escape and beyond.
The book is packed with unputdownable action, as well as thoughtful responses to cruelty. Farmer also takes a complex look at the future of the drug empires that shift between the U.S. and Mexico.
Set in the near future, this book has won many awards and any teenager will love it.
House Of The Scorpion - young adult softcoverBy Nancy Farmer - $11.50
Nancy Farmer leads us into the devastatingly bleak futuristic world of Opium where, for generations, El Patron has ruled a drug empire with an iron fist. El Patron has survived by having clones mad...
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