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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really have a problem with media that shows premarital sex and/or violence. Both are part of life, and reading about it in fiction is a good, relatively safe way to explore and discuss the issues that go with both.

I have a HUGE problem with Bella as a character. It's impossible to imagine a worse role model for a young girl.

Hermione? Yes! Katniss? Yes!
Bella? Ugh.

I am delighted that my 11 year old daughter is familiar with the series, but decided on her own, based on what she heard about it, that she has no desire to read the books or see the movies.

I wouldn't forbid her from reading them. (I'm hard pressed to think of anything I would--just can't get behind book banning!) but I have to admit I'm glad she's not interested in Twilight.[/quote]

I second you on Hermione and Katniss!  Personally, I also think there are tons of role models that are sooooo much better:
Alanna (Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness), then Keladry (Protector of the Small), then Alianne (Daughter of the Lioness), then Beka (Beka Cooper, but I would hold off on this until teen)
Daine (Tamora Pierce, The Immortals)

Sandry, Tris and Daja (Tamora Pierce; Circle of Magic, Circle Opens and Circle Reforged, possibly holding off on the latter two until teen)
Katsa (Kristin Cashore, Graceling)
Cimorene (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)[/quote]

Wait, are you my 14-year-old DD posting?! Honey, I know that's you! Alanna, Keladry, Sandry Tris and Daja....all big favorites of my DD's.

OP, suggest books by Tamora Pierce as mentioned above. My daughter also loves anything by Brandon Sanderson or Robert Jordan, whom she says write strong female characters too.

Or have her look at the series by Marissa Meyer: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, et. al. Science fiction meets fairy tales.

As for Twilight, like another PP mentioned about his or her own kid, my DD said she wasn't interested. Some of her friends read it when they were younger, and at the time some of them even commented (at age 11 and 12) that Bella was a very lame female character who kept getting saved and neeeeeeeeeeeded her boyfriend to be complete. Says volumes that even kids that young could read these wastes of ink and see how poor the characters were. [/quote]

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