SuitabookInterference
Lorna Schultz Nicholson
- Reading
- Read together at a pace that leaves room to pause over Josh’s changing wellbeing. You could also invite the reader to compare the brothers’ different hopes without deciding in advance whose choice is right.
- Themes
- Josh’s health and hockey: Josh’s symptoms interfere with practice and make him fear losing his place; his undiagnosed diabetes is becoming more serious. The overview makes the health problem central to Josh’s sporting worry, but does not show how the story treats the eventual response to it.
- Different ambitions in one family: Matt wants to leave hockey for drama, and his father opposes this strongly enough that they are described as being at war. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Josh’s tiredness, sluggishness, persistent hunger and thirst are connected to increasingly serious undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes. The story also includes tension between Matt and his father over future plans.