SuitabookWork It, Lara Bloom
Dee Benson
- Reading
- Discuss what Lara wants from football and the competition before reading. Afterwards, compare the pressures she faces with the support she receives, while checking whether the conclusion resolves her competing priorities.
- Themes
- Balancing ambitions: Lara prioritises football training while joining friends’ efforts in a school young business competition. The premise makes balancing commitments a central situation, but does not establish whether the book endorses one priority or a particular solution.
- Friendship and pressure: Lara’s friends develop ideas for the competition, while certain people appear to enjoy seeing her struggle to keep her cool. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Sporting self-belief: Lara sees football training as an opportunity to take her playing to the next level and links it to achieving her dreams. Sporting effort and aspiration are clearly foregrounded, but the story’s view of success, failure and personal worth cannot be determined.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether a reader would welcome a story involving competition, difficulty keeping composure and other people taking pleasure in Lara’s struggles. The extent and seriousness of these pressures are not established.