SuitabookBurn
Suzanne Phillips
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your child or teenager and pausing to talk about the difference between understanding why harm occurs and excusing it. Check in about how the bullying and violence are affecting them.
- Themes
- Bullying and victimisation: Cameron is described as a bullied freshman, and the novel challenges readers' definition of victimisation. The book foregrounds bullying and asks readers to think about how victimisation is defined; its treatment of particular characters or behaviours is not clear.
- Violence and prevention: The premise says bullying escalates to violence and Cameron kills another student; the stated aim is to encourage precautionary action against bullying. Prevention is an expressed concern, but the story's wider judgement of the violence and its consequences is not established.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes bullying, violence and the killing of another student. These are central, potentially intense subjects; the level of detail and emotional tone are not established.