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Tracker — Content Guide for Parents

By Gary PaulsenPuffin BooksISBN 978014032240890 pages
Tracker

Found in this book

  • ViolenceBrief
  • Gender rolesBriefChallenges traditional roles

Not found

  • Scary content
  • Religion
  • Race & culture
  • Climate
  • Sexual content
  • Gender & orientation

Couldn't confirm

  • Profanity
  • Profanity: No source gives the book's text or a language rating, so swearing can't be confirmed or ruled out.

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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

As his grandfather lays dying, John hunts alone for the first time. Seeing the doe as it waits and watches him, he knows he must track her; not to kill, but to find, in the skill of the hunt, how to hold onto to his grandfather's life. "A stark, moving story of a boy's coming to terms."

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Tracker appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    John sets out to hunt a deer with a rifle and tracks a doe for two days, but he never shoots her. The description says the family's hunting is about survival rather than sport or manliness, and one reviewer says the book treats the idea that killing deer proves manhood with disdain.

  • Does Tracker have violence?

    Found (Brief): John sets out to hunt a deer with a rifle and tracks a doe for two days, but he never shoots her.

  • Does Tracker have scary content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Tracker have religion?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Tracker have race & culture?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Tracker have profanity?

    Couldn't confirm: No source gives the book's text or a language rating, so swearing can't be confirmed or ruled out.

  • Does Tracker have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Tracker have sexual content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Tracker have gender roles?

    Found (Brief, Challenges traditional roles): The description says the family's hunting is about survival rather than sport or manliness, and one reviewer says the book treats the idea that killing deer proves manhood with disdain.

  • Does Tracker have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.