SuitabookBad luck lion
Emily Costello
- Reading
- Read together or check in after the animal-rescue episodes. Invite your reader to say which moments felt difficult or hopeful; the level of detail in those scenes is unclear.
- Themes
- Care for animals: Stella seeks help for a mountain lion with porcupine quills; other episodes include rescuing a fawn and helping an iguana and a colt. Animal welfare and rescue are central situations, but the available plot account does not establish a wider message about how animals should be treated.
- Different views within a family: Stella loves animals and sometimes disagrees with her gruff, unsentimental grandfather, who is a hunter; she also needs his help tracking the mountain lion. Their contrast is clear, but the plot information does not show whether either view is endorsed or how their relationship develops.
- Worth knowing
- Animal injury and danger feature in the plot: a mountain lion has porcupine quills, and a fawn is rescued from a steel trap. Consider how your reader responds to such scenes.