SuitabookChasing the Moon
Penny Chamberlain, Penny Chamberlain
- Reading
- Before reading, explain that the story combines historical adventure with family separation and an unsettling tarot-related element. Pause after tense scenes to ask what Kit knows, suspects and still needs to discover.
- Themes
- Trust within a disrupted family: Kit spends the summer with her estranged father while her mother is in a tuberculosis sanatorium, and she questions her father’s nighttime activities. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Risk, law and adventure: Kit enters a world where boats carry illegal alcohol through dangerous waters towards American drinkers, while pirates and the Coast Guard are evaded. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Unsettling knowledge and intuition: A carnival boy has an eerie way with a tarot deck that shakes Kit to the core, while the journey is said to lead her towards unexpected insight. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Be ready to discuss danger at sea, illegal alcohol trading, Kit’s separation from her mother, her estrangement from her father, tuberculosis, and the eerie way a carnival boy uses a tarot deck.