The House of the Scorpion Romance

The House of the Scorpion RomanceSeries: National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, Newbery Honor Book, Printz Honor Book Matteo Alacrn was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrn, lord of a country called Opium a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to

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