It Chicks
Tia Williams
- Reading
- Try the opening together, then check whether the school and cast hold your reader’s interest. If the hinted-at encounters raise questions, pause to discuss what is actually shown and what remains unclear.
- Themes
- Ambition and fame: Students at a prestigious performing-arts school are described as pursuing fame and doing whatever it takes to succeed. Ambition and the pursuit of recognition are central to the book’s introduction; whether the story endorses or questions the characters’ choices is unclear.
- Social roles and school drama: The cast is introduced with labels such as ‘Dreamer’, ‘Drama Queen’ and ‘Wild Child’, alongside a group described as the ‘It Chicks’. The labels signal distinct social identities, but the introduction does not show whether the characters complicate or conform to them.
- Worth knowing
- The introduction describes after-school encounters as ‘hot and heavy’. That signals potentially romantic or sexual material, but the nature and explicitness of those scenes are not established.