SuitabookGame Girls
Judy Waite
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside your child, pausing when the girls’ choices or circumstances raise questions. You could agree beforehand that either of you can stop or take a break.
- Themes
- Risk and paid sex: The girls expect their rules to keep them safe while earning money through sex; their plan becomes dangerous and money does not resolve all their difficulties. The story presents their confidence in the arrangement as mistaken, rather than as a reliable route to safety or an easy solution to their problems.
- Three viewpoints: The narrative moves among the three girls’ viewpoints, giving readers a view of their different situations and their ties to one another. The shifting perspectives build emotional closeness and make room to understand the girls’ choices without requiring readers to find them likeable.
- Worth knowing
- Paid sex is central, and the story also includes abuse, rape, bullying, sexuality and a sick parent. These subjects may feel difficult; consider checking in as you read together.