SuitabookChains
Laurie Halse Anderson
- Reading
- Read together at a pace that leaves room to pause around Ruth’s unspecified ordeal. You could also look at how Isabel’s spying dilemma changes what she considers loyalty.
- Themes
- Freedom and enslavement: Isabel and Ruth are promised freedom but instead become the property of the Locktons; Isabel then seeks a way to secure her liberty. The conflict frames enslavement and denied freedom as obstacles Isabel must resist.
- Worth knowing
- Enslavement and coercive ownership are central. The plot also signals that something serious happens to Ruth, without specifying what; this may warrant checking in with your reader.