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.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Aug 10, 2011 4:22:03 pm PDT #15899 of 28293
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
megan walker - Aug 10, 2011 4:48:11 pm PDT #15900 of 28293
"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 28293
Because books.
That's who it was on G+!
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 8:53:12 pm PDT #15902 of 28293
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 28293
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 28293
"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 28293
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 28293
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 28293
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.
zuisa - Aug 11, 2011 10:55:56 am PDT #15908 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I have the first book in the Gormenghast trilogy, but I've sadly never gotten around to reading it.
I haven't much on the NPR list either, sadly, but the books I have read Snow Crash, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and some others) I've very much enjoyed.
I need to read more science fiction, is the moral of this story, I think!