ACTIVIST
by Louisa Reid
Published by Guppy Books
Cassandra, narrator of this powerful verse novel, is a reluctant sixth former in a prestigious mixed school, formerly all boys, where toxic culture simmers.
Driven by her own experience, and by nature a feisty “shouter” she campaigns forcibly for acknowledgement that some of the boys at school treat the girls like property – and some of the graphic accounts of physical exploitation and social media comments are deeply disturbing. It’s balanced though, not all the boys
