(eng) Nancy Farmer - Matteo Alacran 01

✍ Scribed by The House of the Scorpion

• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Series: Matteo Alacran 1
• Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0616238185

✦ Synopsis

Youth: 0 to 6: In the beginning -- Little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the alacran estate -- María -- Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 -- El patró́n -- Teacher -- Eejit in the dry field -- Secret passage -- Cat with nine lives -- Giving and taking of gifts -- Thing on the bed -- Lotus pond -- Celia's story -- Old age: 12 to 14 -- Starved bird -- Brother wolf -- Eejit pens -- Dragon hoard -- Coming-of-age -- Esperanza -- Blood wedding -- Betrayal -- Age 14: Death -- Final good-bye -- Farm patrol -- La vida nueva: Lost boys -- Five-legged horse -- Plankton factory -- Washing a dusty mind -- When the whales lost their legs -- Ton-ton -- Found out -- Boneyard -- Shrimp harvester -- El dia de los muertos -- castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- House of eternity.;In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

✦ Subjects

Human cloning -- Juvenile fiction