SuitabookLa grande rupture
Rowan McAuley
- Reading
- Preview the opening together, then pause after moments involving friendship, school or family change. Invite your child’s response without assuming the characters’ choices are presented as right or wrong.
- Themes
- Friendship and belonging: The book is catalogued with friendship, best-friend and girls’ fiction subjects. These subjects may support conversation about closeness, loyalty or belonging, but the characters’ relationships and outcomes are unknown.
- Family change: Family life and divorce-related circumstances appear among the listed subjects. The book may provide a setting for considering family change, but it is not possible to tell whose perspective it uses or what resolution it offers.
- School and social situations: School elections, sleepovers, parties and conduct of life are listed as subjects. These settings could invite discussion about choices and social expectations, though the events and consequences are not supplied.
- Worth knowing
- If your child is sensitive to family change or anxious situations, check in as those subjects are listed. The book’s level of detail and emotional intensity are not clear.