SuitabookMy one hundred adventures
Polly Horvath
- Reading
- Read a few chapters together before deciding whether your child would prefer to continue alone. Pause after the funeral-related section to check how it landed and whether they want to discuss it.
- Themes
- Family and belonging: Jane lives with her mother and siblings, and the summer includes encounters with some of her mother's former boyfriends. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Belief and unusual encounters: Jane accompanies a pastor on Bible deliveries and has an unusual friendship with a person described as a psychic wannabe. Religious activity and psychic claims both appear in the story, but their presence alone does not show whether either is affirmed or challenged.
- Death and mourning: The chapter headings include references to death and a funeral. These headings suggest that loss enters the story, but they do not reveal who is affected or how the events are portrayed.
- Worth knowing
- Death and a funeral appear among the chapter headings. If bereavement is a sensitive subject for your reader, you may wish to check how this episode is handled together.