We read To Kill a Mockingbird in my Honors English class in 9th grade. But I definitely would have understood it younger. I don't think I'd call it a children's book.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
zuisa - Aug 10, 2011 3:47:58 pm PDT #15898 of 28404
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Sophia Brooks - Aug 10, 2011 4:22:03 pm PDT #15899 of 28404
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We read it in 11th grade as an outside reading. We had a choice between TKM, Catcher in the Rye, and Of Mice and Men. I think I could have read it younger, but the themes were teen appropriate, I think, even though viewed through the lense of younger children.
megan walker - Aug 10, 2011 4:48:11 pm PDT #15900 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Someone on G+ posted a question asking for everyone's favorite children's book, and listed To Kill a Mockingbird. I love that book, but I wouldn't call it a children's book, right?
Nathan Branford had that on his blog today and I thought the same thing. Especially with today's YA category, I always assume "children's book" means well below teen years.
Amy - Aug 10, 2011 5:00:57 pm PDT #15901 of 28404
Because books.
That's who it was on G+!
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 8:53:12 pm PDT #15902 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I would term it a classic with a child protagonist and a child's POV. I don't think it falls as YA, per se, but I think it's very germane to inclusion on MS/HS reading lists.
Kathy A - Aug 11, 2011 7:31:14 am PDT #15903 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My junior high book club always had TKAM as its first book of the year (it was the teacher/moderator's favorite book), so I first read it the summer between 6th and 7th grade. I definitely "got it," but then, I read Roots in 5th grade and loved it, so I was weird.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 10:34:09 am PDT #15904 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Knut and I both thought that NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books was incredibly boring.
So we traded picks and made our own top ten of just Fantasy and I like our list better. (They included series so we did too.)
1. The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles Finney
2. Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
3. Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
4. Mythago Wood series - Robert Holdstock
5. Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll
6. The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
7. Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser series - Fritz Leiber
8. Riddlemaster of Hed series - Patricia McKillip
9. The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
10. Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanick
-t - Aug 11, 2011 10:46:57 am PDT #15905 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, I've certainly read a more representative sample of the NPR list than y'all's.
Jesse - Aug 11, 2011 10:50:09 am PDT #15906 of 28404
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]
Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2011 10:50:51 am PDT #15907 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, your list is completely foreign to me. I have heard of Gormenghast, and I have a Jonathan Carroll book that JZ lent me years ago (I think that's the one, actually) but I haven't read, but I haven't even heard of the rest.
There's much on the NPR list I haven't heard of either, but also lots I like. Too bad the Feed books didn't make it this time!
Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]
Ooh, yeah, worth a read.