The House of the Scorpion

Discover this internationally bestselling, National Book Award-winning young adult classic about what it means to be human with an updated, reimagined cover!

Matt Alacrán wasn't born. He was harvested.

His DNA came from El Patrón, the drug-lord ruler of the country of Opium. Most people hate and fear clones like Matt--except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, and realizes escape is his only chance to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom.

Author: Nancy Farmer
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 09/01/2002
Series: The House of the Scorpion
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780689852220
Repackage Edition
Audience: Young Adult


Award: 2003 Bookseller's Choice Winner - Young Adult
Award: 2002 National Book Awards Winner - Young People's Lit.
Award: 2003 Newbery Medal Honor Book - Children's
Award: 2003 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book - Young Adults
Award: 2002 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) Winner - Recommended
Award: 2005 Nevada Young Readers' Award Winner - Young Adult
Award: Tayshas Reading Commended - Young Adult
Award: 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-8
Award: 2006 Iowa Teen Award Nominee - Young Adult
Award: 2004 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award Nominee - Young Adult
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award Winner - Junior Book
Award: 2005 Young Reader's Choice Award Winner - Senior/Grades 10-12
Award: 2006 Young Hoosier Book Award Winner - Middle Grades
Award: 2006 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee - Teen
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominee - Grades 9-12
Award: 2005 Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner - Teen
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards Winner - Young Adult
Award: 2005 Colorado Blue Spruce Award Nominee - Young Adult
Award: 2004 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Winner - Ages 12 & Up
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards Winner - Young Adult
Award: 2005 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Nominee - Young Adult

About the Author
Farmer, Nancy: - Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor books: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The House of the Scorpion, which also won the National Book Award and the Printz Honor. Other books include The Lord of Opium, The Sea of Trolls, The Land of the Silver Apples, The Islands of the Blessed, Do You Know Me, The Warm Place, and three picture books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border and now lives with her family in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.