Content levels
Trigger warnings
Positive tags
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than 1000 other passengers.
Is The Unresolved appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Parents should know this book deals with a real historical tragedy (the 1904 General Slocum steamboat fire) that killed over 1,000 people, many of them children. The protagonist is a ghost seeking justice for her death, which may involve disturbing imagery of fire and drowning.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, mass death, child death, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be drawn to the mystery elements as a ghostly narrator investigates her own death and seeks to find who was responsible for a devastating historical fire.