In my daughter's school, one/third of the class was reading at an eighth grade level.
I think the best kid books are up to the 8th grade level. After that, there is so much dating and sex in them that the popular books are fairly inappropriate. Anyone else having this problem?
Okay, this describes me as a kid. I read at an 8th grade level in 2nd grade - Watership Down. Then I started picking up my father's novels lying around the house (he read one or two per week). I read The Eyes of Laura Mars in 4th grade... that's when I learned that some people stick their tongues in other people's mouth and call it kissing. Blech! And I learned there was something called public hair (I didn't recognize the word pubic). Let's just say I should never have picked up that book. I think my father was horrified I read it.
My father took me to the library to pick out age-appropriate, award winning books with me for as long as I remember. But I wonder if he didn't realize I needed something more challenging in 4th grade.
