Everything you need to understand or teach What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski.
What Happened to Rachel Riley? is a work of middle grade fiction written by Claire Swinarski. It was published in 2023. It is written primarily in the first person from the perspective of the protagonist, Anna Hunt, but it is also told through text messages, emails, podcast transcripts, and other forms of information dissemination. It is set in Madison, Wisconsin where the protagonist and her family have recently moved, and Anna spends most of the novel trying to figure out why another student, Rachel Riley, has been ostracized. Anna uncovers sexual harassment on the part of the boys at the school. She and the other girls struggle to figure out how to respond to the butt slapping and the bra snapping. Key themes include the importance of staying true to oneself, the importance of female relationships, the importance of males standing up against sexual harassment, the importance of seeing unwanted touching as sexual harassment, and the importance of girls feeling comfortable setting boundaries with boys.
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