SuitabookEquality and difference
Stewart and Ashley begin as sharply different people who dislike one another, then become closer while recognising shared humanity.
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Susin Nielsen - Author
This is a character-led family and school story about two unlike teenagers learning to live together. It offers humour, emotional change and questions about status, difference and what makes relationships dependable.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a character-led family and school story about two unlike teenagers learning to live together. It offers humour, emotional change and questions about status, difference and what makes relationships dependable.
Stewart and Ashley begin as sharply different people who dislike one another, then become closer while recognising shared humanity.
Ashley values popularity, while Stewart is highly intelligent and stereotyped as a nerd; each is described as lacking something associated with the other.
Content needing advance thought includes a death from cancer, bullying, rape, a hate crime targeting Ashley’s gay father, mild language and non-consensual compromising photographs. Consider whether the light tone sits comfortably alongside the more serious material.
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.