{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-scorpion-9780689852220","title":"The House of the Scorpion","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatteo Alacr n was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patr n, 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 fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster--except for El Patr n. 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