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Moose, a 7th grader, and his family just moved to an island with the most famous prison called
Alcatraz. Moose's sister, Natalie, has severe autism. Moose is always sticking up for Natalie and is a good brother. Natalie's parents sent her off to a school that specializes on disorders like autism. Moose had just started to make some friends. He would always go play baseball with his friend Scout. After about 1 day with Natalie being at her new school, the head of the school called her mom and tole them that Natalie does not fit into that school. That meant Moose had to watch Natalie all day. Moose was not happy about that and he really wanted to go play baseball with his friend but Natalie was going to have to go with him. Now that Moose had friends, he didn't want his friends to see Natalie. Piper, te wardens daughter, had made a business that made the cons do peoples laundry for 5 cents. Moose joined along with her. When they were at school, Piper made a kid take his sirt off because she wanted him to get is clothes washed by the cons for 5 cents. Te warden called all of them to his office, and Ntalie came along. The warden read them a letter from the boys dad about Piper taking his shirt. The warden was not happy. All the kids were looking for a baseball and Natalie kept saying "105". Moose thought that she was counting the number of birds in the sky but she was actually talking about one of the cons number. The next moment Natalie was sitting next to a con and he gave her the baseball. He was being very nice to her and he called her sweetie. Natalie had a treatment and it tarted to work. She started to say I instead of saying Natalie. Moose had liked that and her family was proud of her.
Autism
Autism is a disorder that makes it har to comuicate. When people have autism, diffrent parts of their brain can not really work good together. Autism is on a scale that shows people wit little autism and then people with a higher range of autism. In the book, Natalie has a higher range of autism. Symptoms of autism always begin before age 3. Symptoms of autism are if a child learns to alk late or not at all. Another symptom is getting very upset and frustrated when routines change.
Autism is diagnosed by no balbbling or pointing at age 1, or no single words untill 16 months or 2 whor phrases at 2 years. It is best to find when the kid is young.
Autism is a disorder that makes it har to comuicate. When people have autism, diffrent parts of their brain can not really work good together. Autism is on a scale that shows people wit little autism and then people with a higher range of autism. In the book, Natalie has a higher range of autism. Symptoms of autism always begin before age 3. Symptoms of autism are if a child learns to alk late or not at all. Another symptom is getting very upset and frustrated when routines change.
Autism is diagnosed by no balbbling or pointing at age 1, or no single words untill 16 months or 2 whor phrases at 2 years. It is best to find when the kid is young.