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About this book
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.
Subjects
- age:max:12
- age:min:10
- autism
- autism, fiction
- autismo
- award:newbery_award
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- brothers and sisters of children with disabilities
- california, fiction
- children's fiction
- dysfunctional families
- familias problemáticas
- families
- family, fiction
- family life
- family life, fiction
- family problems
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- grade:max:6
- grade:min:5
- hermanos
- historia
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- lexile:600
- lexile_range:601-700
- newbery honor
- prisons
- siblings
- siblings, fiction
- united states penitentiary, alcatraz island, california
- united states penitentiary, isla de alcatraz, california