Description Share Post Gone for Good Sarah Crossan (Simon & Schuster) What happened to Belle? Could she be Gone for Good? We meet Belle first when she’s alive, struggling through her escape from Silver Lake Academy, She considers how she’s ‘not made from stardust’ that in fact, it’s not her bad behaviour that’s the problem, but the imprisonment. However, what next? Thereafter, Connie’s ‘kidnapped’ in the middle of the night and taken to this brutal place. Yet why? Connie’s grieving the loss of her mother, the swift removal of evidence of her, yet this place? Surely it’s a mistake? After all, this place is like a correctional facility, and Connie’s not ‘bad’ but ‘sad’. While she’s aware that her sadness disturbs Wendy, her father’s girlfriend, she’s not seen how much it upsets the new order, until… Then again, Connie’s resemblance to the missing Belle is eerie. Naturally, Connie has feelings of escape, yet she’s also intrigued by Belle’s story. What happened? However Silver Lake Academy offers Connie no chance to enquire. In fact, she cannot even phone home without supervision, is refused the opportunity to communicate with other inmates. Bookwagon loves the award winning verse novels of Sarah Crossan, including such titles as Toffee. It seems she connects her characters directly to the reader so that it’s us confused, helpless, wondering and thereafter determined for clues and escape. We are completely immersed. Thereafter we recommend Gone for Good to our older, teen reading audience.
