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Violence
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No violence
Language
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Clean language
Sexual Content
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No sexual content
Substance Use
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No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
No psychological concerns; purely charming and historically grounded
What this book is about
Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan moves to Alcatraz Island when his father gets a job as a guard — and his family hopes to get his autistic sister into a San Francisco school. Choldenko's award-winning MG novel is warm, funny, and quietly ahead of its time in its depiction of a family navigating a sister's different needs.
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