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The Factory — Content Guide for Parents

By Egan, CatherineScholastic IncISBN 9781339034218306 pages
The Factory

Found in this book

  • ViolenceBrief
  • Scary contentSupporting
  • ClimateSupporting

Not found

  • Religion
  • Race & culture
  • Profanity
  • Sexual content
  • Gender roles
  • Gender & orientation

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Religion

PRESENT

Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

"Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle is no stranger to misfortune. Bullied at school and struggling with problems at home, he dreams of the day he can leave it all behind him. That's when he receives an unexpected opportunity: an invitation to join the Factory -- a top-secret research facility that's supposedly developing renewable energy -- and Asher will be paid handsomely for his participation. It seems like the answer to all his problems. But not everything is as it seems at the Factory. The other kids in the program are tired and sullen, almost as if they've had the life sucked out of them, and the staff members are clearly hiding something. What's more, Asher discovers he wasn't chosen at random; someone in the program desperately wants him to participate. Asher can't help but feel that whatever the Factory is doing, it's not what he or any of the other kids signed up for. To Asher's horror, it turns out that the Factory isn't developing renewable energy at all. So what is the Factory up to, and more important, why? As conditions in the Factory worsen, Asher must team up with the other kids to uncover the sinister truth behind the experiment -- and his personal connection to it -- before someone gets seriously hurt"--

Frequently asked questions

  • Is The Factory appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    Kids in the program are hurt by painful extraction procedures and punished by staff, guards are armed, and some kids disappear, but a librarian notes there is no open brutality. The secret experiment, painful extraction pods, sick and disappearing kids and sinister staff create a creepy, tense atmosphere that one reader found hard to take.

  • Does The Factory have violence?

    Found (Brief): Kids in the program are hurt by painful extraction procedures and punished by staff, guards are armed, and some kids disappear, but a librarian notes there is no open brutality.

  • Does The Factory have scary content?

    Found (Supporting): The secret experiment, painful extraction pods, sick and disappearing kids and sinister staff create a creepy, tense atmosphere that one reader found hard to take.

  • Does The Factory have religion?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does The Factory have race & culture?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does The Factory have profanity?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does The Factory have climate?

    Found (Supporting): The story is set in a future damaged by climate change, with wildfires and climate refugees, and the Factory's energy program is a response to that crisis.

  • Does The Factory have sexual content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does The Factory have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does The Factory have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

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