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[quote=Anonymous]My kids, now in middle and high school, had similar scores at that age. I prefer my kids read classic literature, which teaches them delayed gratification (no first person non-stop action there!), and understanding of complex sentence structure and vocabulary. Your kid can start with The Lord of the Rings (Hobbit first if he hasn't read it already), or Watership Down, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, or something like the Redwall series, with lots of accents from the British Isles transcribed on paper (the audiobooks read by the late author are fun). I assume he's read the Harry Potter series, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. He can also start reading some Terry Pratchett, the later novels are better.

If your kid is into Greco-Roman myths, you'll have to tell them later on that all modern retellings are mostly wrong on multiple points, and that kids' versions walk a fine line to hide the incredibly misogynist and violent nature of that mythos, and that basically Zeus sexually assaults his way around the world. For some reason, parents tend to pay a lot more attention to inappropriate content in contemporary works than in classical works, and the earlier the work, the more passes it gets.

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