Synopsis
Young building worker, Toni V, finds a diary buried
in a water can in the rubble of a construction site.
He knows he should just hand it in to the Supervisor
– that’s the rule. But curiosity gets the
better of him and he starts reading. At first the diarist,
Pelly D, seems like any ordinary girl, writing about
clothes, parties, boys. But underneath the light, sassy,
often sarcastic narrative, Toni V begins to sense that
something very different, sinister and scary is unfolding.
Set far in the future and on a distant planet, Pelly
D’s diary bears witness, through the eyes of a
young girl, to the terrifying consequences of genetic
classification.
Cross-curricular links and themes
- History –
the Holocaust.
- Citizenship and PSHE
– genetic engineering, eugenics, government
and power.
- Science –
genetic engineering; global climatic change.
- Themes: the
individual versus the state; identity cards; the
individual versus the peer group; bullying; prejudice.
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