SuitabookSTAR Academy
Edward Kay
- Reading
- You could read the opening together and pause after the discovery, if its details feel troubling, to check how your reader is finding the story before continuing.
- Themes
- Scientific ambition and recognition: Amanda enters a science fair with an interstellar-travel project; after it loses, she is offered a scholarship to a school for future scientists. The plot sets scientific promise alongside disappointment and a new opportunity, but does not establish a broader judgement about competition or achievement.
- Trust and unease at the Academy: Amanda settles into a remote boarding school with friends and supportive teachers, then makes a disturbing discovery. The contrast suggests a mystery within an initially welcoming setting, but does not show what the discovery means or how the school is portrayed overall.
- Worth knowing
- Amanda is humiliated after her project loses, and the Academy is described as remote and fortress-like; later, she makes a disturbing discovery. Its nature and intensity are unclear.