SuitabookBelonging through friendship
Finn is isolated in his village and seeks help from children who have excluded him, including other children who feel isolated.
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Elizabeth Laird - Author
This is an environmentally focused adventure about an outsider seeking friendship and a place to belong, with dolphins, Scottish legend and a family mystery adding emotional and imaginative interest.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an environmentally focused adventure about an outsider seeking friendship and a place to belong, with dolphins, Scottish legend and a family mystery adding emotional and imaginative interest.
Finn is isolated in his village and seeks help from children who have excluded him, including other children who feel isolated.
Plastic, rubbish and a planned release of thousands of balloons threaten dolphins and the wider sea environment.
Finn's mother disappeared when he was very young, he lives with his depressed father, and he is surrounded by rumours before learning more about his past.
Some readers may want support with Finn's loneliness, peer exclusion, his father's depression, his mother's disappearance and dolphins being endangered by pollution and rubbish.
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.
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