SuitabookAdrift
Paul Griffin
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in as the danger at sea escalates. Pause to ask what feels most pressing to the characters, then compare how each person’s choices affect the group.
- Themes
- Survival at sea: Five teenagers are adrift for days as waves rise and their small boat weakens. The worsening conditions make survival the central pressure on the group, with the teenagers adrift for days in a weakening boat.
- Different circumstances, new friendships: Matt and John, described as working-class friends, meet Driana, JoJo and Stef, who live a more privileged life. The contrast in class and circumstances frames the new friendships as the teenagers enter a shared survival crisis.
- Worth knowing
- The teenagers face danger at sea: waves rise, their small boat weakens, and they are adrift for days. The story’s survival peril may be intense for some readers.