SuitabookSchool of Fear
Gitty Daneshvari
- Reading
- Read alongside a conversation about personal boundaries and different responses to fear. Pause after particularly frightening episodes, if needed, and invite the reader to distinguish being challenged from being forced.
- Themes
- Facing fears: Four children are sent to a special school to overcome distinct phobias, but the school’s methods become frightening. The premise clearly makes fear and attempted change central, but does not show whether confronting fears is ultimately endorsed, questioned or unsuccessful.
- Different fears, shared experience: The four children fear different things and come together at the School of Fear. Their contrasting fears create scope for mutual understanding, but the story’s treatment of friendship and cooperation is not shown.
- Worth knowing
- Expect fear-focused suspense, including named phobias involving bugs, death, confined spaces and deep water. The teacher and school are described as frightening, but the degree and detail of these scenes remain unclear.