SuitabookJack & Louisa
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
- Reading
- Invite the reader to notice which theatre opportunity each friend wants and how their plans affect their friendship. Afterwards, compare their choices with other ways friends can support one another.
- Themes
- Friendship and competing ambitions: Jack considers whether Louisa should skip an audition for a drama competition involving their camp friends; he may also direct her. The situation places friendship alongside separate performance opportunities, but the book’s view of the friends’ choices is not established.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a possible special someone, but the nature and extent of any romance are unclear. It also raises a choice between an audition and a drama competition; how the disagreement plays out is not established.