About the Book
The House of the Scorpion is a science fiction novel written by Nancy Farmer, and published in 2002. The book features a variety of characters including a young boy named Matt (Matteo Alacran) who grows up in a dystopian world controlled by a powerful drug lord who is in fact the man who cloned him. This story features the dark yet hopeful life of this young boy and the people that he begins to meet after he is discovered in his small home in the poppy fields by a group of children. He, being a clone, is ignorant to the world around him, and he soon finds himself to learn about the evil that surrounds him.
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About the Author
Nancy Farmer is an American author that was born on July 9, 1941 in Phoenix.