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    House of the Scorpion (Paperback) By (author) Nancy Farmer

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    Short Description for House of the ScorpionTo most people, six-year-old Matt isn't a boy but a beast, dirty and disgusting. However, to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves him as he loves himself, for they share the same DNA. But surrounded by bodyguards, Matt longs for escape.
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  • Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn't a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, Matt longs for escape. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect.