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Reply to "Condoms, Drug Dealers, Drunk Fathers – Are these good books for 6th graders?"
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[quote=Anonymous]These are good books to be included in recommended list for 6th graders. I have not read them but my 6th grader has. He has read literally thousands of books including things like Shakespeare, the Odyssey, Jules Verne, Twain, Tolkien, Dune, etc., as well as all the more contemporary teen or middle grade classics like Riorda,, Lin, His Dark Materials, etc. He recommends them. Incidentally, I remember reading Catcher in the Rye as a middle class white girl who was not from the east coast in 9th grade in the 80s. I liked it okay but it felt even less relevant to my life than Jane Austen or Frankenstein. Was he in boarding school? I had no idea those even existed. And his relationship with girls was seriously screwed up. Again, the Jane Austen relationship were more relateable to me! (The guy who might be a jerk or might be a nice guy who just communicates poorly—thats a classic!)[/quote]
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