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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To Kill a Mockingbird
Watership Down
[i]Animal Farm [/i]
Willa Cather novels, especially My Antonia and O Pioneers
The Giver and its sequels
A Wrinkle in Time, to be followed by When You Reach Me
The Book Thief
The Green Glass Sea
Al Capone Does My Shirts (and its sequels)[/quote]

How on earth is an 11-year-old girl in the US in 2014 going to make the least bit of sense of Animal Farm?[/quote]

Did you read the list OP posted of the books her daughter has read? If she's read Fahrenheit 451, she's not going to have a problem with Animal Farm (or 1984 for that matter). My 3 kids read it between ages 11-13 and got a lot out of it.[/quote]

NP here. Agreed. I read Animal Farm at 12 and while I'm sure I missed some stuff, I got enough out of it to successfully use it as one of two main supporting points on an SAT essay in 8th grade and get full marks, so I don't think reading it around that age is completely unreasonable.[/quote]

My 12-year-old and his BF are both reading Animal Farm in 7th grade. They attend different schools, and discovered this accidentally. They had a great time discussing the book. Of course they both love history and know a bit about the Soviet Union. My son's class covered the USSR as well.[/quote]

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