Review: What Happened to Rachel Riley ? - Claire Swinarski

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What Happened to Rachel Riley

Review: What Happened to Rachel Riley? - Claire Swinarski - January 2023


This book was an amazing read and I found myself enjoying it more than I thought for a few reasons. What Happened to Rachel Riley? is a tween read and set in 7th Grade/8th Grade. Anna has just started a new school and at the school, on everyone's birthday - it is read over the intercom and people cheer. One day, she hears a girl's birthday read and nobody cheers at all. This strikes her as odd as the girl isn't ugly by beauty standards and even the freaks and geeks get cheers. This girl got utter silence. The book then jumps to Anna's new social sciences class and the class has been asked to do an un-essay topic on something that they are passionate about or a topic that interests them. Anna wants to know What Happened to Rachel Riley and uncover the reason she was ostracised and no one cheered. The school isn't happy about her project and forces her to change it. Anna does but continues in the background on her Rachel Riley project. As she does this, she learns about a secret game that the boys do in the school which is where the #metoo section of the book comes to light and talks about sexual harassment in schools and the double standards between boys and girls.  This book was such a great read and goes into the topic of the #metoo movement without being OTT and this read is suitable for tweens aged 11+ as the content is a fairly clean read considering the theme of the story. 

The other thing I loved about this book is that it contained various formats from emails to letters to advertisements, text messages/ notes, and podcast/interview transcripts.




Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QyGKqs







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