10 year olds are "middle grades" for books now, I think.
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Jesse - Sep 23, 2012 10:39:48 am PDT #19795 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Strix - Sep 23, 2012 10:49:32 am PDT #19796 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
And ita !, kids have such a wide range of maturity levels when it comes to books, the recommendations are a guideline, not a hard-and-fast rule. At 7, I was reading about 60% very adult books, and 40% YA.
So those recs...parents and teachers take them with a grain of salt.
Amy - Sep 23, 2012 11:13:44 am PDT #19797 of 28344
Because books.
YA books that are considered, for lack of a better word, "clean," might get a "ten and up" recommendation. For instance, Kiersten White writes books with a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old protagonist, but there's no swearing, nothing more than kissing, and nothing really gritty (or real, to be perfectly honest) about the books. So those might get a "ten and up" label.
Otherwise, like Jesse said, anything from eight to twelve is considered "middle grade," but like Strix pointed out the recs are really loose, and vary by publisher, and era, etc.
When I wrote the first Big Empty book, it was post-apocalyptic, with teens orphaned and alone all over the place, and one of them (she was fifteen, I think) pregnant, and Penguin called that "ten and up". So you never know.
Consuela - Sep 25, 2012 7:07:54 am PDT #19798 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
John Scalzi's blog today asks for recommendations for new books. There's a lot of books recommended; nice to see Code Name: Verity is one of them.
DavidS - Sep 25, 2012 12:31:51 pm PDT #19799 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did everybody see Tiger Beatdown's take on George R.R. Martin? (Hint: the "R" stands for Rape!)
Spoilery galore for the books.
Kat - Sep 25, 2012 12:41:51 pm PDT #19800 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Who recc'ed Imaginary Girls? Just finished it. Very enjoyable.
EpicTangent - Sep 25, 2012 1:06:50 pm PDT #19801 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Thanks for that, David. I can't read the article at work (Category: Social Networking), but I've been looking for some info on the books. I just randomly discovered a copy of Game of Thrones in my barely-touched bookshelf that holds the jillion or so books I bought (at 4 or 5 for a dollar) when my fave used bookstore lost their lease a few years back. I've been wondering whether to read it - I'm not so into Huge Sweeping Fantasy, so I wasn't sure, despite the love expressed here. Your link looks like it might be helpful, especially since the title implies a certain-hot-button issue.
Amy - Sep 25, 2012 2:13:32 pm PDT #19802 of 28344
Because books.
I think I probably recc'ed Imaginary Girls, Kat. I'm really looking forward to her new novel, too.
hippocampus - Sep 25, 2012 2:15:36 pm PDT #19803 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
I am having a hard time putting Code Name Verity down (this is also Amy's doing). But tonight I am reading Glass Heart, because it just arrived!
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2012 2:28:10 pm PDT #19804 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Given what I had heard, I expected ASOIAF to be some huge rapefest, but, thankfully, it is not, at least in the first three books. That is, there is a fair amount of rape in the world, present and past, but there aren't a lot of rape scenes. It's mostly just talked about.
I'm not so into Huge Sweeping Fantasy, so I wasn't sure, despite the love expressed here.
I was the same until I got hooked.