SuitabookCold Turkey
Simon James Green, illustrated by Tosin Akinkunmi
- Reading
- Read it as a short, event-led adventure, pausing after major obstacles to discuss trust, pressure and choices. Afterwards, compare the boys’ starting relationship with their relationship at the ending.
- Themes
- Repairing a friendship: Kit and Hamza, once best friends, must work together after Kit becomes angry about an alleged betrayal. The book does not clearly resolve its stance on this.
- Pressure and responsibility: The boys are offered money to deliver a cooked turkey across London before it gets cold, then encounter escalating obstacles. The situation raises questions about why they accept the job and how pressure affects their choices, but no moral judgement or outcome is established.
- Worth knowing
- Be ready for suspense around the police, bomb squad and a scary street gang.