The House of the Scorpion. By Nancy Farmer

"I'm a lonely, small boy in this old creepy house. I have no contact to whatever is out there." That's probably what Matt, a clone, is thinking as he lies in a beat down house, miles away from any civilazation, until one day three shadows past by the bolted window. That is the first contact of human beings Matt has ever had, other than with his "Mom." That was the begining of Matt, A.K.A the Beast, according to the Alacran families dad.
Matt is a small clone of a teribble man. He hardly knows any english, and he' clueless about anything, even how he was born and how he got to the house hes in now. Matt is left in the dark until a sweet girl named Maria, of the Alacrans, finds him when his "Mom" is away working. She helps Matt with reading, speaking and all the basic things a human needs to know to survive.But Maria has no idea about what Matt really is.
My favorite part in the book is in the begining when Matt breaks the window on his house and jumps out to meet the Alacran kids. He so dumb that he jumps into the broken glass and hits the floor as quikly as he jumped out the window.The author was so descriptive in describing the situation and saying how the samll fragments of glass were piercing his feet so he couldn't move made it all the better.
All though this book is long it's worth reading because of all the suspense and action.
written and published by Matthew Hernandez