Name: Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island
ISBN: 9780425102947

Eve Bunting

After saving an elderly woman from a mugger, Danny Sullivan is pursued by the Outlaws, a tough gang seeking revenge, to Alcatraz Island, where he and Biddy, a young female ranger, fight for their lives.

Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island

Lynn Braden

Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island is a very dated story about Danny who has offended the local gang and has run into them on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. In order to avoid being beaten or worse, Danny takes the ferry over to Alcatraz Island thinking the gang will be gone by the time he comes back from the tour. While on the ferry, he meets Biddy, a young female park ranger going to work on the island. To Danny's surprise, the gang follows him over to the island and he then tries to find a way to hide.

This book is very short but lacks character development. For example, we really don't learn much about the gang members or why they do the things that they do. The details describing Alcatraz and the tour are well researched and historically accurate. The story does build the suspense, but it leaves a lot of details unresolved. In 1984 when this book was written, it was probably very interesting, but it doesn't hold up to modern standards for young adult novels.

Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island

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