Bridge of Clay Author: Markus Zusak Themes: Grief Love and Family Genres: Realistic Fiction Recommended Age for Reading: The language and content are strong. The F word is used a lot, which is understandable with five brothers raising each other without adults 🤷. I'd say the content is up to parental discretion. Personally, I wouldn't want my children reading this book until they were in high school. Also, I'm not going to keep this book in my class library. If I were a high school teacher, it'd be one that I would strongly recommend my students to read, though. So many kids that age have already dealt with the loss of a parent and have had to experience raising themselves, so many could relate to the plot of this story. Synopsis: The story is told from the perspective of Matthew Dunbar who is the eldest of five brothers, but the story is about his brother, Clay. At the beginning of the story, all the reader knows is that