SuitabookArmageddon Summer
Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville
- Reading
- Try a few alternating chapters together, pausing when the viewpoint changes. This can help you compare how each teenager sees the same central situation and notice which questions your reader wants to discuss.
- Themes
- Faith and belief: The teenagers’ parents believe a religious leader’s prediction, while Marina and Jed try to decide what they believe. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Love amid uncertainty: Marina and Jed fall in love while they are at the retreat awaiting the predicted catastrophe. Romance is part of the premise, but its development and the book’s treatment of it are not specified.
- Worth knowing
- The setup includes a religious group expecting the world to end and teenagers taken to its remote retreat by their parents. Consider whether that premise might feel intense for your reader.