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[quote=Anonymous][i]TKAM [/i]is very advanced on many, many levels, and subject matter will go over a young person's head.

The point of view is actually quite complex, as it allows readers to analyze the characters and events on several levels.  Few middle schoolers or high school freshmen (when the book is normally taught) understand all of the nuances on their own.

Have your pre-teen/teen kid read the first few pages of [i]TKAM[/i] when the social context is addressed.  Many, many points will go over his/her head.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To Kill A Mockinbird, Tolkien, the Diary of Anne Frank, and Lord of the Flies are YA books? How are you defining YA? "Books that teenagers may enjoy reading"?[/quote]

My son read the Tolkein books, on his own w/o my prodding before the 7th grade and during middle school he has read Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird.  He would have read the Diary of Anne Frank in 7th grade when they touched on WWII in school but he was too busy reading other WWII related books.

That doesn't mean that kids can't read those books in later grades or other books entirely, it just means that my kid read those particular books before/during middle school.[/quote]

Yes. Teenagers can read these books. That doesn't make them YA books.[/quote]

Well, o.k.  But middle school kids have been reading classics like The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Diary of Anne Frank for decades.  And there is a reason for that - those particular classics are usually right at a middle school kid's interest level.  That doesn't mean that the kid can't read the book well before middle school or well after middle school.  It just means that the impact of the story will be best felt in/around middle school.

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