SuitabookFalling over sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick
- Reading
- Consider checking in before and during reading about the medical emergency and school relationships. If either feels close to a reader’s own experience, pause and talk through what they would like to continue reading.
- Themes
- Humour amid a family crisis: Claire's father has a medical emergency; the overview says Claire, her family and friends need to find a way to make the situation funny again. Humour is part of the stated response to a serious event, but whether it helps, hurts or changes over the story is not established.
- Peer conflict: Claire's school life includes mean girls and a boy described as just as bad or worse. Unkind behaviour is part of Claire's difficulties; how it is challenged or resolved is not established.
- Feeling unheard at home: Claire feels that nobody at home is really listening to her. This describes Claire's perception of family communication; whether the family recognises or changes it is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- A parent’s medical emergency is central to the story, alongside unkind behaviour at school and Claire’s sense of being overlooked. These elements may feel weighty; their detail and intensity are unclear.