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Violence
Barely any
Very little physical violence
Language
None
Marked as not present
Sexual Content
None
Not present
Substance Use
Barely any
A car interior smells of tobacco; a minister smokes a pipe
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A twelve-year-old is deliberately abandoned by her grandmother in a strange town and told her entire family history was a lie
What this book is about
Common Sense Media rates it 10+ and puts the matter precisely: "Not much physical violence but a lot of emotional violence in the form of adults who abandon children, with many ripple effects." The only substance note is a car that smells of tobacco and a minister with a pipe. No language, no sexual content. What makes this the hardest of the Three Rancheros books is that the abandonment is total and the adult who commits it is the one Louisiana loves.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
A child deliberately abandoned by her guardian
Discovery that her family history was fabricated
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