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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she likes fantasy/science fiction/YA, try to ALSO encourage her to read some more "traditional" books in that genre, like "Hunger Games," Tolkein, etc., but make it in addition to what she's reading on her own, not "instead of."

--An English MA holder who has helped run a youth reading grant and knows that kids reading ANYTHING on their own is tremendously valuable[/quote]

We've tried this without much success. Compared to contemporary YA fantasy, the fantasy/science fiction I grew up reading--Asimov, Heinlein, Zelazny, McCaffrey, Dune--seems boring and difficult to her. The "junk" that I happily devoured alongside more serious fiction is serious fiction compared to what's on the market today. Oh well![/quote]

Well, that is because they are difficult, and completely remote.  Read some Asimov again.  It is sooooooo midcentury.  We grew up then or close to then, but our children didn't.   Dune is really too sophisticated for ten year olds, even if their reading ability is there.  Heinlein isn't mysogynist and cpmpletely a product of the sixties... Yet another remote decade.  There was a lot of good stuff written in those eras, but a whole lot of crap rivaling today's.  You sound old.[/quote]

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