SuitabookTricked
Jen Calonita
- Reading
- Read together or check in after the school’s rules and leadership are introduced. Ask what Gilly knows for certain, what she has only heard as rumour, and what she hopes to achieve.
- Themes
- Helping a sibling: Gilly decides to get sent back to the school after Anna arrives there. The premise makes Gilly’s effort to help Anna central, but does not show how the story judges her choices.
- Rules and control: Gilly hears that Rumpelstiltskin has taken over the school and that security has been tightened. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a child being sent to a tightly controlled school and another choosing to return there. How threatening or intense these situations feel in the full story is unclear.