SuitabookOstrich Boys
Keith Gray
- Reading
- Consider checking in before and after the more serious parts, especially if death or unresolved loss may feel close to home. Afterwards, discuss the difference between honouring a friend and acting impulsively.
- Themes
- Friendship under pressure: Three friends undertake a journey connected to their dead friend and must reconsider their relationships as events become more serious. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Grief and remembrance: The friends take Ross’s ashes to a place he had wanted to visit, treating the journey as a way to honour him. The act is framed as an attempt to honour Ross, while its legality and consequences remain part of the tension.
- Uncertainty about Ross’s death: As events unfold, the friends must address the question of what really happened to Ross. The mystery gives the journey a more serious direction beyond its comic and adventurous elements.
- Worth knowing
- A parent may wish to know how the book handles Ross’s death and the friends’ decision to take his ashes. Illegal travel, police pursuit and bungee jumping are part of the adventure; the ending and consequences are unclear.