The House of the Scorpion

[Jeremy]

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is a seminal novel in the genres of both children’s literature and science fiction, for it deals with a very important and controversial subject in science: human cloning. Matt is a boy raised in isolation from all human contact except a doctor and a loving woman known as Celia. However, an encounter with three children ends his sheltered existence forever and forces him to live with a wealthy and powerful family, whose members treat him with utter disdain and disgust once they learned what he is. Fortunately, Matt has the protection of the head of the family, an old man called El Patron whose name is Matteo Alacron, whom Matt admires until the boy finds out what his purpose in life is. This is a profound novel that raises many ethical and moral questions about human cloning. At the same time, it is a very exciting and fun adventure story that readers of all ages will enjoy. Nancy Farmer’s characters are well-developed and will elicit strong emotions in the readers, whether love or hate.

[Alia]

Nancy Farmer Bibliography:

Novels
Do You Know Me (1993)
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm (1994)
The Warm Place (1995)
Runnery Granary (1996)
A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
The House of the Scorpion (2002)
The Sea of Trolls (2004)
Sea of Trolls 2 (2005)


Anthologies containing stories by Nancy Farmer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
A Wolf At the Door (2000)

Short stories
Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse (2000)
Origami Mountain

[Alia]

*giggles* I love research, one finds all kinds of cool stuff...

An interview...

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/..._history/97782

Nancy Farmer, the critically acclaimed children’s writer, won a Newberry Award for her book A Girl Named Disaster. (Recently, she won the National Book Award for a children’s book set on the U.S.-Mexico Border.) Farmer’s first experiences in Africa were working as an entomologist in a lab on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique. When her contract ran out, she moved to Zimbabwe, where she met and married her husband. They lived in Zimbabwe for twenty years.

[Alia]

This is another awesome link for Nancy Farmer...

http://www.teenspoint.org/reading_ma...=tpauthprofile