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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer says that the main setting of the story is in the vicinity of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

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As evidenced by conditions in one of the major cities, San Luis, parts of Aztlán are very affluent, while others, such as Durango, the region that El Patrón and Celia hail from, languish in poverty.

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