SuitabookOff the Wall
Camilla Reghelini Rivers
- Reading
- Consider reading together and pausing around the tournament rivalry, so you can check how the competitive scenes feel and talk about what matters to each sister.
- Themes
- Sibling rivalry: Shelby takes up Lizzie’s sport, copies her, and becomes a successful player; the sisters face each other in tournament play. The rivalry is presented as emotionally charged, but how the story judges or resolves it is unclear.
- Feeling misunderstood at school: Other children bother Lizzie, while her teacher thinks she is a troublemaker. These difficulties are part of Lizzie’s situation; the story’s treatment of them is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- The rivalry is described as fierce, driven by hurt feelings, and leading to dangerous results; a reader may want to know how these moments are depicted.