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| Author: | Gennifer Choldenko |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, autism |
| Year of publication: | 2004 |
Some books are of their times. This book takes place at Alcatraz prison in the 1930s but is very much a reflection of contemporary culture.
The first-person narrator is a boy whose family moves to Alcatraz so that his sister may apply to a school for autistic children near San Francisco. |
The characters' understanding of the disease and of each other is no doubt very anachronistic.
My daughter enjoyed the local color and the family relationships seemed truthful, for a child of today at least.
-- Emily Berk |
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