House Of The Scorpion

By Nancy Farmer format: young adult softcover publication: May 2004 ISBN: 0689852231

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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 made from a supply of frozen DNA, clones who can provide body parts and, ultimately, new life and clones who aren't even considered human in this society. Matt is the latest in the line of the clones who have been harvested for El Patron and El Patron has decided that he's going to give Matt a chance to have the best of everything before using the boy's heart. But things are about to fall apart in the perfectly dreadful world that El Patron has created and Matt holds the key to a brighter future if he can survive. Nancy Farmer has written an intensely inventive fiction that deals superbly with the difficult issues that genetic modification raises. Jeffrey Canton (Books in Canada)

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