I was totally non-censored by parents, but teachers and librarians tried to censor my reading, which never worked. I was reading Little House AND bodice-rippers. But I was a reading mutant, as has been established.

AFA reading Divergent, personally, I think the discussion/warning/read if you want with discussion tack is appropriate. As a parental figure, I veto some TV/film/videos but am very much non-censory when it comes to books. I give warnings, and talk about the book. M is a pretty good self-censorer when it comes to stuff, in saying "I think this might be too scary for me" and we go from there.

"Where The Red Fern Grows" was THE most upsetting book I read before age 12, and I was reading all KINDS of crazy stuff with sex, violence, death and monsters.

Was there another book with a title like that, but with lilies? I remember something like that traumatized me.

Where the Lilies Bloom?

I'm reading Allegiant right now, and it's a mess. I never bought the social engineering concept, and her efforts in Allegiant to explain mainly reveal that Roth was sleeping during biology classes.

Yes, Ginger! Thank you. At least, that's the title I was thinking of. Maybe it wasn't the one that broke me, though.

Allegiant is a HOT MESS. There were some things I liked, but its writing style was really different from the first 2 (and I don't mean because of the switching POVs). It was more...opaque. I didn't feel as immersed in the world as I did with the first 2.

I *sobbed* at the end of Where The Red Fern Grows. That book was UPSETTING.

It was also like the third book I'd read that year in school where the protagonist's best friend or beloved pet dies. There was that one, Bridge to Terabithia and I think The Yearling.

I *sobbed* at the end of Where The Red Fern Grows. That book was UPSETTING.

My teacher read this aloud to us, after lunch and recess. When we got to the end, there were lots of sniffles in class.

There's a whole sub-sub-sub genre in children's fic of Dead Dog Books.

flea, have you decided what to do?

I remember one of my college roommates often harping on how the opening of Babar had traumatized her for life. So you never know. (Mostly I was traumatized when I gave it to my friend S and in reading it to her son realized how bad the standard translation was.)

Our elementary librarian decided that reading WtRFG was not enough and so showed the movie to each class. TRAUMATIZED.