Over twenty years later Avi has written a sequel to The Secret School. Ida is attending HIGH SCHOOL in in Steamboat, CO!!! As she adjusts to high school, she realizes how sheltered her life in the mountains has been. Everything in Steamboat is modern-the train, the movies, the telephone, the library, the phonograph etc. Ida also manages to upset the principal by correcting him in front of her classmates. When he catches her and her "secret sisters" dancing The Charleston, he singles her out and threatens to expel her. Then she also has to consider the reputation of her guardian, Miss Sedgewick . . .
This novel immerses the reader into the 1920s and all of the changes and the conflicts that abound in that decade. Avi provides a glossary with the flapper terminology. Lulu, one of Ida's friends, speaks "flapper" constantly. I found it a bit annoying!
*Highly recommend. A very engaging plot with an interesting setting & characters
More edgy than The Secret School.
Discuss: how to interact with an adult who is wrong & being vindicative, lying, how women were treated during this time period, WWI effects, superstitions
-Borrowed from the library.
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