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[quote=Anonymous]My boys were pretty good readers for their age cohort (born 2000s).

My boys and my younger nephews liked the Warrior Cats and lots of Rick Riordan.  I feel that the plots and the characters were what they liked, not the level of the writing.  They didn't need dumbed down books, they just liked the stories.  My kids got their intro to Greek and Norse myths through D'Aulaires books, just like me.

When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I read my mom's 1950s YA fiction about high-schoolers being "senior widows" when their boyfriends left for college, getting "pinned", etc.  I even read some dreck called "Cherry Ames, Student Nurse".  Some was good, some was bad but all of it felt antique.  I would guess that Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are like that now.  Books where characters don't have smartphones are practically Victoriana.

I think people will always appreciate what seems "of the now" for their current life.  And parents try to find what they liked as a kid and have their kids read it - but results on that are mixed.[/quote]

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