SuitabookAnimalia
Shauna C. Murphy
- Reading
- Before reading, discuss what makes a school feel secretive or dangerous. Check in as the mystery develops, especially if missing-student plots feel unsettling.
- Themes
- Working with animals: Animalia is a school discipline described as working with animals’ unique abilities; the book is also framed around connection to animals and the natural world. The premise places human-animal connection at the heart of Sunday’s ambition, but its treatment in the story is not established.
- Ambition and danger: Sunday wants to follow her father’s path at a secretive school, where students in Animalia are going missing. The premise puts Sunday’s goal alongside a danger she did not expect; how she responds, and what the story makes of that tension, are unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes students going missing and suggests Sunday could be at risk. Her father is described as late; how his death affects the story is unclear.