
141: Carrie's War
Sophomore Lit
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The Goethebeds: A Children's Book of Trauma
There are some very complex and adult relationships in this book for children. Some of the backstories about the Goethebeds who are like the English family who own the mines, who just gambled all their money away,. They used to have this massive house, but over time they just lost all that money. So that's one reason why the local people are a little bit sort of anti-them. But also there was an accident in the mines which killed Mr Evans' father, which he was a witness to; so he never forgave the GoetheBed family for the death of his father. And Carrie finds herself in this position of wanting to defend him in some way - although
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