SuitabookScam
Lesley Choyce
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the young person rather than treating scams as the whole point. Pause around the funeral, group-home placement and thefts, then revisit how trust and responsibility develop.
- Themes
- Survival, deception and responsibility: Josh has previously hidden problems at home and becomes involved in Lindsey's scams, including stealing wedding gifts. The story appears to distinguish survival from cheating while showing Josh's attraction to and discomfort with Lindsey's actions.
- Grief, trust and unexpected support: Josh is dealing with his mother's death and later supports Lindsey after a death in her family. The story presents grief and trust through two young people whose relationship changes their lives, while help comes from unexpected places.
- Family disruption and institutional care: Josh has been managing an unstable home life and is taken into a group home after his mother's death. The circumstances give context for Josh's self-reliance and place his choices within a wider need for care and stability.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes a parent’s death, drug use, family breakdown, social-work involvement, group-home life, theft, scams, wedding-gift stealing and another family death. These elements may merit preparation or checking in.