SuitabookGrowing through difficulty
The eleven stories place teenagers in varied challenges and describe them learning, growing or finding a way forward.
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Lois Lowry - Author
This is a varied collection rather than one continuous storyline: each story presents a young person confronting a different difficulty, then gaining knowledge, perspective or maturity.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a varied collection rather than one continuous storyline: each story presents a young person confronting a different difficulty, then gaining knowledge, perspective or maturity.
The eleven stories place teenagers in varied challenges and describe them learning, growing or finding a way forward.
Characters consider dating, coming out, creating a distinctive appearance, comparing themselves with a sibling and living with facial scarring.
The emotional range is broad: alongside dating and family secrets are coming out, bereavement, a dying child, blindness, facial scarring after an accident or bomb, and ghostly children seeking a living girl.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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