Originally Posted by 2giftgirls
Originally Posted by Kate
This week, DS8 is reading Catching Fire (part 2 of Hunger Games) and Gregor the Overlander (by the same author). If he leaves one at school, he reads the other one at home. He usually has at least 2 books in process as one book is left somewhere where he is not... And don't worry, we have plenty available "on deck" so I do not have to hear the dreaded, "I don't have anything to reeeeaadddddd!!!!!!"

I wasn't sure if the Hunger Games series is appropriate for this age? I read them and know my DD8 would enjoy them, but we've already had a few incidents at school where what she says has been misunderstood by other kids or adults...when I told her they were about kids fighting other kids to the death, she said "cool!" I realize she means that sounds exciting and with lots of tension, but other people might take that as her saying it would be cool for kids to kill kids...am I the only one who worries about that?


I was the same way. DS8 had asked to read Hunger Games a while ago and I wouldn't let him. Finally I gave in, and I basically hovered over him asking him, "Are you scared?" "Do you think you are going to have nightmares?" "You can talk to me about anything in the book that bothers you." etc, etc. He wasn't bothered by it like I was. (I almost stopped reading the book after the first couple chapters because I was so disturbed.)

We've talked about the dark future portrayed in it, but I have not seen or heard anything from him about kids who kill.