SuitabookSomething blue
Courtney Sheinmel
- Reading
- Read together if you want to pause over the characters’ choices. Let your child lead on what interests them, and check in if the wish to run away prompts questions.
- Themes
- Joining a family: Stella is excited to meet Lia, who is to become her first cousin when their parents marry. The outline establishes the new family relationship, but not how the story presents the change or the characters’ feelings about it.
- Worth knowing
- The outline includes paint accidentally sprayed on a wedding dress and a character wanting to run away. It does not say whether Lia acts on that wish or how either event is handled.