The Unclaimed has been written for the first year high school student who is a motivated reader. It is highly suitable for wide reading, literature circles or novel study. It is in the mystery genre and is written in the present tense to capture a sense of immediacy and maximise reader involvement in the narrative. The themes in the novel are identity and belonging, family, personal growth and of course, good versus evil. As part of the English Alive program, the novel has a number of accompanying worksheets, found in the English Alive Teacher Resource Book Phase 1, covering language, reading, thinking strategies, and an overview of the novel.
