House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Matt has been raised in a house by himself.  The only other human being that he has seen is his nanny.  He watches tv and knows that there are other people out there- but in his home all of the windows and doors are nailed shut.  One day Matt sees children playing outside of his house.  He breaks through a window, climbs a chair, and jumps out onto the broken glass of the window.  The children carry him back to their house where a doctor looks at Matt’s wounds.  The doctor sees that Matt has markings on the bottom of his foot- marking him as a clone.  But clones are less than dogs, so how does Matt have intelligence?  Who’s clone is he?  And how will he survive in a world where clones are less than nothing?  Read House of the Scorpion to find out.  

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