SuitabookAlmost home
Joan Bauer
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in as the family circumstances emerge. A gentle pause can let the reader share reactions to the loss and instability, or simply continue when ready.
- Themes
- Responding to circumstances: Sugar faces circumstances she cannot control and comes to focus on how she can respond. The story presents this understanding as part of Sugar's development, alongside help from people around her and her own humour and love of poetry.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes a death in the family, a parent who gambles and leaves, and the loss of the family's home. These circumstances may feel weighty for readers with related experiences.