SuitabookLaina
Eva Gibson
- Reading
- Check in around the family separation and uncertain robbery as they arise. After reading, invite discussion of what Laina knows, suspects and feels, without assuming the ending resolves everything.
- Themes
- Family separation and change: Laina moves to a logging town and is troubled by leaving her best friend and by her parents’ separation. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Uncertain investigation: A coin-collection robbery captures Laina’s attention, while her uncle says the robbery did not really happen and the coins are missing. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Attraction and unhappiness: Laina feels an attraction to an aloof boy who appears determined to make his own unhappiness. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The book brings together parental separation, leaving a best friend, a possibly unreal robbery and attraction to an unhappy boy; readers may want support discussing these overlapping pressures.