Dear Cricket,
Your points are well taken. Thanks so much. I'd love to share book titles if you and your daughter are interested.
Are you wanting to know what she is reading in her own time?
Just so you can place her in age/grade now, she skipped 5th grade after the year of coasting in 4th and will be 12 y/o in the fall (and in 8th grade). I don't think that her reading level has been tested since 6th grade. At least, I wasn't given any reading score reports from 7th.
From what I can recall, here's some idea of what she's read in the past few years:
6th grade (age 10): The Phantom of the Opera, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (up until For Love of Evil at which point she felt the content was inappropriate for her development at the time), The Hunger Games, the Twilight series
7th grade - this summer (age 11): Catching Fire (sequel to the Hunger Games), The Catcher in the Rye, The Lord of the Rings, a scuba textbook (she's working on her open water certification in a week here)
I'm sure that she's read other books as well. These are just the ones I recall her reading. Not all of them are hard books per se. My 9 y/o has also read the Hunger Games books, for instance, and she's not nearly as much of a reader as my 11 y/o.
