The House of the Scorpion

The House of the Scorpion
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471120384
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Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, 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 exact 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, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

A Study Guide for Nancy Farmer's "The House of the Scorpion"

A Study Guide for Nancy Farmer's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410348474
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A Study Guide for Nancy Farmer's "The House of the Scorpion," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

NOVELS FOR STUDENTS

NOVELS FOR STUDENTS
Author: CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE
Publisher:
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Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535837446
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Lord of Opium

Lord of Opium
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471118304
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Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isn't all that's hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering, but he can't even find a way to smuggle his childhood love Maria across the border and into Opium. Instead, his every move hits a roadblock - both from the traitors that surround him and from a voice within himself. For who is Matt really but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator?

A Girl Named Disaster

A Girl Named Disaster
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545229782
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Orchard Classics is a collectible hardcover line of Newbery award-winning titles from the Orchard backlist that have fresh, beautiful new designs and include author prefaces and discussion guides.A GIRL NAMED DISASTER is the humorous and heartwrenching story of young girl who discovers her own courage and strength when she makes the dangerous journey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that lasts a year.

The Sea of Trolls

The Sea of Trolls
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481443089
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After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

The House of the Scorpion Novel Units Teacher Guide

The House of the Scorpion Novel Units Teacher Guide
Author: Novel Units
Publisher: Novel Units, Incorporated
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Language arts (Secondary)
ISBN: 9781581309546
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Suggests activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer.

The Girl Who Was on Fire (Movie Edition)

The Girl Who Was on Fire (Movie Edition)
Author: Leah Wilson
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1936661594
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Includes 3 brand new essays on Gale, the Games, and Mockingjay! **Already read the first edition of The Girl Who Was on Fire? Look for The Girl Who Was on Fire - Booster Pack to get just the three new essays and the extra movie content.** Katniss Everdeen's adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues to blaze in the hearts of millions worldwide. In The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition, sixteen YA authors take you back to the world of the Hunger Games with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. From the trilogy's darker themes of violence and social control to fashion and weaponry, the collection's exploration of the Hunger Games reveals exactly how rich, and how perilous, Panem, and the series, really is. • How does the way the Games affect the brain explain Haymitch's drinking, Annie's distraction, and Wiress' speech problems? • What does the rebellion have in common with the War on Terror? • Why isn't the answer to “Peeta or Gale?" as interesting as the question itself? • What should Panem have learned from the fates of other hedonistic societies throughout history—and what can we? CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Mary Borsellino, Sarah Rees Brennan, Terri Clark, Bree Despain, Adrienne Kress, Sarah Darer Littman, Cara Lockwood, Elizabeth M. Rees, Carrie Ryan, Ned Vizzini, Lili Wilkinson, Blythe Woolston, Diana Peterfreund (NEW), Brent Hartinger (NEW), Jackson Pearce (NEW)

The True Adventures of Charley Darwin

The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152061944
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Just in time for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," Meyer tells the story of his restless childhood, unrequited teenage love, and a passion for studying nature that was so great, Darwin would sacrifice everything to pursue it.

Memory Boy

Memory Boy
Author: Will Weaver
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062241680
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Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell knows that the only chance his family has of surviving is to escape from their Minneapolis suburban home to their cabin in the woods, As the Newells travel the highways on Miles' supreme invention, the Ali Princess, they have high hopes for safety and peace. But as they venture deeper into the wilderness, they begin to realize that it's not only city folk who have changed for the worse.