Title: Depressing / Sexual Content
Product review: This story centers around a 5-year-old boys who catches his mother on the couch making strange noises with a man who is not his father. This event is the catalyst for a neglectful mother, who often leaves her son with a drunk babysitter, to send him away on a train to stay with his grandmother. Throughtout the book there are at least 12 references to the sexual event that victimizes the boy, makes him hate "Uncle Casey," and separates him from his mother. The kindness of his grandmother and the men at the cookcamp are overshadowed by recurring memories of a negative sexual event. Infidelity, neglect, haunting memories, separation... not an uplifting or appropriate book for elementary students.
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