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Scorpions, first published on June 20, 1988, by Harper & Row, is a young adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers. [1] It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1989. [2] The book was republished by HarperCollins on October 6, 2009 [3] and by Amistad on April 23, 2013. [4]
The House of the Scorpion is a 2002 science fiction young adult novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in the future and mostly takes place in Opium, a country which separates Aztlán (formerly Mexico) and the United States. The main character, Matteo Alacrán, or Matt, is a young clone of a drug lord of the same name, usually called "El Patrón".
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, [1] are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida. Pseudoscorpions are generally beneficial to humans because they prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice , ants , mites , and small ...
Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker. [3] The longest-running and most successful line-up of the band included Schenker, Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums), and lasted from 1978 to 1992.
Taken by Force is the fifth studio album by German band Scorpions, released by RCA Records in 1977. This was the first Scorpions album to feature drummer Herman Rarebell and the final studio album to feature guitarist Uli Jon Roth.
Weirauch's first novel was published in 1918, titled Die kleine Dagmar, or Little Dagmar. In 1919, she published Der Tag der Artemis or The Day of Artemis, which was her first work to depict a homoerotic (adolescent) relationship. Weirauch's most popular work came with her trilogy Der Skorpion (The Scorpion). [4]
Savage Amusement is the tenth studio album by the German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 1988. It peaked at No. 5 in the US [10] and was certified platinum by the RIAA on June 20, 1988. [11] It was the last Scorpions record to be produced by Dieter Dierks.
Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor books [1] and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.