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Summary
Summary
Six by Karen Tayleur takes the reader into the lives of six teenagers on the brink of adulthood. The story begins where it ends, in the aftermath of a terrible car accident. But something else is lurking behind the apparently normal lives of these Year 12 students. Five of them have found a body in the woods during the summer. When they report it anonymously, the discovery has implications for all of them. Relationships are developing and changing. All of the characters are facing the pressures of Year 12 and the spectre of the future. All of them have secrets and the way in which these are revealed is one of the many engaging features of this novel.
Characters -
Characters -
AFTER READING - Fill in the following table:
CHARACTER: QUOTE: CHARACTERISATION (how does this quote SHOW us who this character is?):
1. Sarah Lum
Poppy Harris
Virginia Sloan
Jacob Nicholson (Nico)
Tom Cooper
Tamara
Carl
Aunt Lili
Virginia
COMPREHENSION Questions - To Be Completed After Reading
COMPREHENSION Questions - To Be Completed After Reading
What happens in the prologue? What does the shift worker find?
What does Sarah say about the summer before Year 12?
What is revealed about Poppy in Chapter 2?
Why are Poppy and Sarah invited to Virginia’s house?
Why does Sarah’s mother want Virginia to come to dinner?
What does Sarah say about the walk in The Woods?
Why do the girls cut through The Woods?
Who do they meet in The Woods?
What do they find in The Woods?
Why don’t they immediately call the police?
Why does Poppy go back into The Woods?
Who makes the anonymous phone call?
Describe Sarah’s feelings for Finn.
How did Sarah meet Poppy?
Why did Sarah want to become a doctor?
What are Cooper’s plans for the future?
How does he feel about Virginia?
What are his plans for the formal?
Why are Sarah and Poppy drifting apart?
What is the ‘Power’ game?
Who is Carl and how does Poppy feel about him?
Describe some of the pressures felt by Nico.
How does Nico’s relationship with Poppy begin?
What happens in Chapter 13?
What has happened to Finn’s family?
Why is his relationship with Virginia a secret?
Why does Virginia agree to go to the formal with Cooper?
What does Sarah get for her birthday?
Why does Virginia feel that something is wrong on the day of the formal?
How does Finn feel about Sarah?
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