SuitabookOlivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City (Olivia Kidney)
Ellen Potter
- Reading
- Try the opening together if your reader is unsure about the ghost premise, then check in as the mystery moves underground. You can pause to talk about what feels funny, strange or tense.
- Themes
- Ghosts and unusual experiences: Olivia can communicate with ghosts, and this shapes her life. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- School change and difficulties: Olivia’s father insists that she enrol at a prestigious arts school, and she has school problems. The school situation creates a challenge, but its treatment and outcome are unknown.
- Friendship and solving a mystery: Olivia helps her friend Frannie investigate an old mystery. Their joint investigation is a central adventure, but the details do not establish what the story says about friendship or how the mystery ends.
- Worth knowing
- Ghosts and an underground mystery are central elements; the closing comparison suggests the mystery may feel more intense than the ghostly events. The level of fear or peril is not clear.