As some of our members are in Grade 6 and 7, we had a member in Grade 10 quite concerned about some upsetting content in Unspeakable. We won't spoil the plot for you, it is revealed early on in the story that a main character has been raped. On their own, the younger members of the group preferred to read The Boundless, so it all worked out.
Both stories involved main characters who were pretending to be someone or something they were not -- in The Boundless, Will Everett takes on the identity of an East Indian circus performer, and in Unspeakable, Ellie Ryan who is from the upper middle class, becomes employed as a maid on board a ship.
We had a great evening creating collages on canvases which we painted blue. We used images and words from discarded books, old magazines and incorporated selections from a wonderful collection of postage stamps donated by a Masonville patron. These pieces hung in the Teen Annex of the Masonville Library for 6 months.
Be sure to check out Caroline Pignat's informative website & Kenneth Oppel's marvelous website!
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