SuitabookI Survived
Lauren Tarshis
- Reading
- Consider reading together if your child finds disaster stories intense; pause to check how the eruption scenes feel, then talk about what the story leaves uncertain.
- Themes
- Living with a dangerous natural landmark: Jess has explored Mount St Helens and feels calm seeing it before its eruption. The contrast between comfort and danger is central to the setup, but the story's broader treatment of that contrast is unclear.
- Survival and friendship: Jess faces a dangerous eruption; friendship and best friends are listed themes. Survival is explicit, but the part friendship plays in Jess's ordeal is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- The eruption brings life-threatening danger: ash and rock are described as spewing around Jess, and the event is characterised as deadly and destructive.