- Brothers and sisters, Dysfunctional families, Juvenile fiction, Family problems
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Classical in form, earnest, intimate and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Gennifer Choldenko
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Limited, Puffin Books, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780142403709
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