Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen
“Tackles some very challenging emotional issues about mental health and social isolation within the context of a dramatic de-personalised assault by concrete-destroying plants that also emit deadly spores… However, lots of potential issues for discussion re. social justice and why help is so delayed as well as survival strategies and ethics of care. Strong characters in the tower. Uncomfortable in places in the context of Grenfell and covid but important issues could be raised from the text that might allow some of these issues to be discussed. I enjoyed book.”