By Nancy Farmer
A National Book Award Finalist, Newbery Honor
This young adult science fiction brings the reader into a futuristic world without losing any sense of reality. By placing the issues of border patrol, drug trafficking, and even cloning into the hands of a self-serving family patriarch, the reader is forced to look at the human side of these problems.
In the story, El Patron has convinced the US and Mexico to give him the borderlands between the two countries, thereby creating a new country, Opium. Mexico becomes Aztlan, and illegals crossing from both sides find themselves trapped in a new kind of slavery. At the center of the story is Matt, a clone, in a world where clones are not even considered human.
I give this one five stars--well written and leaves the reader thinking, the earmarks of a classic
A National Book Award Finalist, Newbery Honor
This young adult science fiction brings the reader into a futuristic world without losing any sense of reality. By placing the issues of border patrol, drug trafficking, and even cloning into the hands of a self-serving family patriarch, the reader is forced to look at the human side of these problems.
In the story, El Patron has convinced the US and Mexico to give him the borderlands between the two countries, thereby creating a new country, Opium. Mexico becomes Aztlan, and illegals crossing from both sides find themselves trapped in a new kind of slavery. At the center of the story is Matt, a clone, in a world where clones are not even considered human.
I give this one five stars--well written and leaves the reader thinking, the earmarks of a classic
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