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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 9 year old can't get enough of percy jackson. There are three 5 book series that she's read now. It's gotten her really into Greek mythology and she loves seeing Greek mythology everywhere. Like Achilles heels, the NASA space ship named Artemis, etc.[/quote]

Did you let her read the last series trials of Apollo? Any issues? I was reading the books along with my 8 year old and Trials of Apollo is much darker psychologically and violent. I stopped him when he started having bad dreams.[/quote]

Not PP but I have a 9 year old obsessed with Greek mythology and she did fine with the Trials of Apollo books. The main thing about the books with older kids is there is more romance, but it's honestly still pretty light. But every kid is different. My kid reads a ton of fantasy and a lot of it is more violent but as long as it has a moral core and the violence is not gratuitous, I'm okay with it.

She recently got into Star Wars and I've been surprised by how much gratuitous violence is in those movies and books. I've had to restrict some of it as a result. Percy Jackson is way, way less violent than that. It's closer to Harry Potter type violence. I'd put the Trials of Apollo books on par with some of the later HP books, so that could be a good guide for whether your kid is ready for them.[/quote]

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