SuitabookBeing Fishkill
Ruth Lehrer
- Reading
- Let the child set the pace, and pause if they want to talk about trust or asking for help.
- Themes
- Care and ongoing distress: Duck-Duck and Molly offer Fishkill friendship and help, while her mother’s return complicates this tentative family connection. Fishkill’s guilt, anger and abandonment intensify. Care is presented as meaningful, but not as a quick answer to grief or abandonment; emotional difficulty continues alongside the possibility of support.
- Worth knowing
- Neglect and abuse are central to Fishkill’s early life; the story also includes her using violence against other pupils, bereavement, abandonment and strained family relationships.