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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom took the attitude that she shouldn't limit what I could read, but she limited what I could watch.  Her reasoning was that my imagination could only build up things from personal experience, and reading about a sex scene was a completely different experience for a 8-10 year old than watching a sex scene.  She also thought it was a more controlled way to explore difficult themes like violence.  I was a pretty precocious reader, and I read all kinds of books with mature themes from a young age, however I wasn't allowed to watch PG-13 movies until I was 13.

Catcher in the Rye has a scene with a prostitute, and To Kill a Mockingbird has a heavy plot point about rape, so these are not exactly gentle themes for young adults.  I think it's completely appropriate for middle schoolers to read those books, but don't kid yourself that these are so much better than Hunger games in appropriateness just because they are classics.[/quote]

I actually felt that my son was a bit too immature for To Kill a Mockingbird at the beginning of 7th grade (content wise not reading level wise).  But by the end of 7th grade he seemed like he had matured enough to handle TKAM as a summer read.  I did not read it with him but we did talk about the book and I gave him some literary analysis to read along with some questions to think about.  And judging from his answers,  I do feel that he got a lot out of the story, I was really proud of him.

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