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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Henry Huggins is a book mainly about an 11 year old. The babysitters club girls are 13. Maybe kids could read them, but they wouldn't really even relate to the kids in the books because the characters are so much older. Just not that appropriate for 1st grade no matter how good a reader is. Anyway, probably a lot more deeper thinking could be had from reading and discussing Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and 10 other children's picture books in the time it would take to read and discuss those two books.[/quote]

I was an early reader and always read baby sitters club etc. when I wasn't their age.  I remember reading Sweet Valley High when I was in 5th/6th grade and thinking 16 years old was SOOOO old, but looking back, it's so young!

I don't think that kids absolutely have to read things that they only currently experience.  How would they expand their minds?  Sure I didn't understand everything I read, but that doesn't mean it didn't give me perspective about different people and different ages. [/quote]

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