SuitabookGone
Michael Grant, Michael Grant
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the child’s reactions to hunger, threats and changing relationships. Pause before or after major conflicts to discuss choices and consequences; the ending and conflict’s resolution remain unclear.
- Themes
- Power and responsibility: Young people develop talents described as unimaginable, dangerous and deadly, while sides are chosen and conflict approaches. The situation clearly raises questions about how power should be used, but its moral treatment is not known.
- Life without adult systems: Adults, teachers, police, doctors, parents and communication systems disappear, while hunger and bullying threaten the remaining young people. The premise explores sudden independence and social disruption, but does not show whether cooperation or conflict is ultimately favoured.
- Worth knowing
- Expect sustained peril in the premise: hunger, bullying, a sinister creature, mutating animals, dangerous powers and threatened war.