Are you still there
Sarah Lynn Scheerger
- Reading
- Read alongside the opening chapters if needed, pausing to discuss the difference between suspicion and evidence. Afterward, talk about Gabriella’s choices without treating her success or failure as predictable.
- Themes
- Trust under threat: Gabriella must navigate a school where everyone is considered a suspect while her father leads the police case and her relationships become part of the uncertainty. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Responding to danger: Gabriella joins a top-secret crisis helpline and becomes involved in trying to stop the bomber while threats escalate around her. The premise presents help-seeking and intervention as central actions, but does not establish whether the story treats Gabriella’s involvement as effective, risky or both.
- Worth knowing
- The book may suit a reader who wants a high-stakes school mystery and can engage with bomb threats, lockdown fear, threatening messages and the possibility that danger is directed at the protagonist.