Is 10 too young for Hunger Games trilogy? (books, not movies)

[Anonymous]

If so, can you recommend another series?

[Anonymous]

I would read The Giver and see how that goes first.

[Anonymous]

I would recommend The City of Ember series. It's another dystopian future story, but without the violence.

[Anonymous]

Should be fine. The books gloss over the violence quite a bit with most of it "off screen". Of course it depends on the maturity of the kid too. But I wouldn't have a problem with it.

[Anonymous]

Lots of kids in my daughters 5th grade class read it, but she found it disturbing and did not want to read very far.

[Anonymous]

Here are some lists of dystopian sci fi novels more appropriate for that age:

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/book-list/adventure-fantasy/dystopian-novels-middle-grade-readers

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12576.Middle_Grade_Dystopias

[Anonymous]

The Giver is too slow. City of Ember is taught by HGC in MoCo, so I am not sure its inappropriate, but it's also slow. For comic relief my elementary school age child loved the Zombie Chasers - but its not as dark as Hunger Games. My other ES-Age child read the Hunger Games trilogy when he was nine and loved it. We started reading Divergent together, but we both thought that it was not right for him.

[Anonymous]

14:44 PP here - my 10 yo picked up Masterminds by Gordon Korman a few months ago and loved it.

[Anonymous]

How about Enders Game?

There was one scene near the end of the first Hunger Games book (when the mutant dogs are nibbling one of the contestants) that I found a bit disturbing.

[Anonymous]

PP here who recommended The Giver. I had my 10 yo read it last summer after she said she wanted to read the Hunger Games, and it was not slow. We read it together, a couple chapters at a time, and talked about every chapter. My DD had never read a Dystopian story before and it was really interesting to discuss what was similar what was different than our world. The book surprised her and we had some great conversations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If so, can you recommend another series?

The problem with the Hunger Games is that it has no redeeming value as literature.

[Anonymous]

+1 for the Giver

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If so, can you recommend another series?

The problem with the Hunger Games is that it has no redeeming value as literature.

And does everything a 10yo picks up has to have "redeeming value as literature"? Puh-leez. And I disagree, actually, from a YA perspective, I think Hunger Games does an excellent job of exploring various themes in an accessible way.

Enders Game is a wonderful dystopia but some may take issue with the main character being involved in WAR at the age of 6, and killing other children soon thereafter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If so, can you recommend another series?

The problem with the Hunger Games is that it has no redeeming value as literature.

There's nothing wrong with Brain Candy if it helps encourage a 10 year old to read.

Why not just go with Finnegan's Wake or Brothers Karmazov while you're at it?

[Anonymous]

I am a big Ender's Game and Orson Scott Card fan, but I wouldn't recommend it for most 10yo kids. It is violent, slow, and pretty heavy on the sci fi.