The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

"You are ugly!" "Leave" "No one likes you" "Dying!" It is said that such things are different every day. You can say that our society is the most unacceptable. "Scorpion House" accurately reflects this. It shows how people are discriminated because of differences, how money influences and erodes people, and how power is defiling people. Every day, people are discriminated because they are different. For example, in the "scorpion house", the hero of Matteo Araklan has been discriminated many times as a clone.

House of the Scorpion (2002) is SF novel by Nancy Farmers. In the future, it will be set around the country that separates Aztran (former Mexico) and the United States, opium. The protagonist Matteo, or Matt, Alacrán, is a young clone of a medicine name that is often called "ElPatrón". This is a story about the struggle to survive and seek out personal identities as free individuals. It received the National Youth Literature Award, was named Newbury Honorary Book and Michael L. Prinz Honorary Book. In the field of speculative fiction, I received the Locus Prize at the Young Adult Department and the Mythopoeic Award at the Children Division.

Nancy Farmer wrote three Newberry honor books: ears, eyes and arms, a girl named Disaster, and also the house of Scorpion who won the National Book Award in 2002. Other books include "Three You Know My Way", "Warm Place" and three books for young children. She grew up on the Arizona and Mexican border and now lives with her family in Menlo Park, California.

Nancy Farmers is one of the most eye-catching voices of young adult literature. Her books "Ear, Eyes and Arm" received the Newberry Honor Award, a girl named "Disaster", and "Scorpion House" also received the National Book Award and received Printz honor . The farmer grew up in Yuma, Arizona, and their parents run the hotel near the abandoned prison. Initially, the Peace Corps taught chemistry and biology in southern India, after which 17 people worked in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where he met her husband. After his son was born, Farmer began writing and used her rich career. She does not call himself a science fiction writer, but Mr. Farmer explains as follows. "Science fiction can approach many social problems you can not resolve directly, no one will pay attention to it, like a sermon."