The house of the scorpion, Nancy Farmer

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The house of the scorpion, Nancy Farmer

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Farmer

Instantiates

• The house of the scorpion

Publication

• New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002

Copyright

• c2002

Note

"A Richard Jackson book"

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Youth: 0 to 6: In the beginning -- The little house in the poppy fields -- Property of the Alacrán estate -- María -- Prison -- Middle age: 7 to 11 -- El Patrón -- Teacher -- The eejit in the dry field -- The secret passage -- A cat with nine lives -- The giving and taking of gifts -- The thing on the bed -- The lotus pond -- Celia's story -- Old age: 12 to 14 -- A starved bird -- Brother wolf -- The eejit pens -- The dragon hoard -- Coming-of-age -- Esperanza -- Blood wedding -- Betrayal -- Age 14: Death -- A final good-bye -- The farm patrol -- La vida nueva: Lost boys -- A five-legged horse -- The plankton factory -- Washing a dusty mind -- When the whales lost their legs -- Ton-Ton -- Found out -- The boneyard -- The shrimp harvester -- El Día de los Muertos -- The castle on the hill -- Homecoming -- The house of eternity

Control code

ocm48796533

Isbn

9780689852220

Lccn

2001056594

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

u559641