Cages by Peg Kehret
Posted at 10:43 pm | Filed Under Cages
If you do something wrong that you don’t feel good about, should you keep it a secret or come clean about it? Read this book if that questions resonates with you. It’s also for teen girls who have concerns about difficult family situations, loss of a parent, and problems with friends.
Kit Hathaway is 14 and is paralyzed by fear and indecision because she’s been put on the spot at the end of her speech on shoplifting. The opening chapter of Cages sets up the rest of the book, which is a flashback of the events leading up to the moment in which she must decide whether or not to be honest about a bad decision that she made. The construction of the novel increases the tension, and I couldn’t put it down. Kit’s difficulties with an alcoholic step-father, a detached mother, and a complicated social life come into focus when she starts to volunteer at the local humane society and begins to find her way out of her cage. A fast-paced read, the novel looks at dishonesty/honesty/denial from many perspectives.
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