SuitabookSecrets at Sea
Richard Peck, Kelly Murphy
- Reading
- Try the opening together, then check in as the mice’s voyage unfolds: the book promises adventure, but the level of suspense and the nature of its surprises are not clear.
- Themes
- Family solidarity and responsibility: Helena travels with her three younger siblings when the Cranston mice stow away together. Family solidarity motivates the mice’s choice, but how the book evaluates that choice is unclear.
- Social rank: The voyage takes the mice into a world of titled humans and mice; social class is also listed as a subject. Rank is part of the setting, but whether the story questions, accepts or otherwise treats social hierarchy is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The mice stow away on a sea voyage, and the book signals adventure and possible peril. How tense or dangerous these scenes become is unclear.