SuitabookThe Secret Rites of Social Butterflies
Lizabeth Zindel
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in afterwards if the family changes or social pressures feel close to home. Let the reader set the pace for discussing the consequences of sharing private information.
- Themes
- Truth, gossip and privacy: A group of girls secretly records classmates’ intimate details and insists it is collecting truth, while Maggie comes to recognise the danger of information reaching the wrong people. The synopsis presents harmful disclosure as a serious risk, rather than treating the girls’ claim that they are merely collecting truth as the final word.
- Worth knowing
- Maggie’s parents have split up, and she has moved with her mother. The story also involves classmates’ intimate information being secretly recorded and the possibility of serious harm when it is misused.