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I know it's not a novel. I realize it's autobiographical. I know she has grit and determination. I know she won the nobel prize.

My point is that a child reading about a child being shot in the face and  left to die is disturbing. I don't think an 11 year old, who is learning about the world, should think about something like that. They have plenty to learn, and plenty of time to learn it.

[b]When I was a kid, we didn't know about things like that at 11.[/b] We also didn't have suicide and depression rampant in high school. Protecting your children's emotional and psychological well being is part of being a good parent.[/quote]

Who's "we"? I did. So did lots of other 11-year-olds, most notably the ones who live where things like that happen.

You know what I didn't know about at 11? Active-shooter drills in schools.

(It's not autobiographical. It's an autobiography.)[/quote]

Seriously. At 9 I was writing President Reagan letters to ask him to please not nuke the world and make friends with the Russians. I read "Night" at 10, because it was laying around the house. None of that scarred me - shaped me, yes. Hurt me, no. My son, now 13, is a reluctant reader and he will only read things that make him FEEL something, and care about something. He loved The Hate U Give and The Hunger Games because they are stories of young people fighting injustice. It makes small people feel hopeful that they can have agency in the light of injustice, and they'll see injustice everywhere they look as tweens, whether it is just that their brother got to stay up later.[/quote]

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