DD, then 11, read both TKAM and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She has read the rest of Ms. Angelou's autobiographical series, too. She has
not read "Precious" which I feel is probably a little too much still.
She was pretty shocked at the Maya Angelou book, but took it in stride and we've never limited news and print media sources (though to be fair, we also never read pop stuff like People and Us weekly or anything... LOL. Cosmo? Isn't that the one by Carl Sagan?
)...
so she's had a fair context in which to place this knowledge.
Only in the past year, at 12-13, has she been willing to push into more mature reading which contains more overt sexual themes and violence.
Personally, I like the idea of saving this kind of material for when a parent is around to answer questions/concerns as they arise.
