SuitabookFamily care and separation
Kendra lives with her grandmother while her mother completes a PhD, and hopes her mother will return after finding work.
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Coe Booth - Author
This is a character-led story about a teenager balancing home rules, friendships, school, family loyalties and hopes for change. Kendra’s architectural sketches and private thoughts suggest a young person forming ambitions while adults’ decisions shape her circumstances.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a character-led story about a teenager balancing home rules, friendships, school, family loyalties and hopes for change. Kendra’s architectural sketches and private thoughts suggest a young person forming ambitions while adults’ decisions shape her circumstances.
Kendra lives with her grandmother while her mother completes a PhD, and hopes her mother will return after finding work.
Kendra is starting high school, attends play practice, sketches house plans and negotiates conversations about friendship and romantic interest.
Be ready for family separation or delayed reunification, controlling household expectations, conflict between relatives, teasing, profanity, references to menstruation and sexualised clothing, and discussion of romantic or sexual relationships.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.