At what age do you think kids should start reading adult books?

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1. lily says:

   July 23, 2009 at 2:36 am

   depends what you mean by adult novel. my mom didn’t let me read philippa gregory (the author of The Other Boleyn Girl) until i was fourteen, but now i steal her books all the time (i’m 16).
2. Alana says:

   July 25, 2009 at 9:07 am

   i wzas at an adult reading level by age 7/8
3. twilightfan622 says:

   July 26, 2009 at 5:04 pm

   11 maybe 12, depending on your reading skill.
4. diana says:

   July 29, 2009 at 3:22 pm

   it really depends on what reading level you are.
5. yankees1 says:

   July 31, 2009 at 11:48 pm

   when ever there mature enought to handell it
6. ratgirl says:

   August 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm

   As soon as they are able to comprehend them. I started reading adult fiction around the age of 11. I always tested out way high in the reading/comprehension categories, so juvenile fiction became, well, juvenile pretty quick. I always read to my son as he was growing up (he is now an avid reader) and the first adult fiction I read aloud to him was “Inheritance” by Judith Michael and he was 9 at the time.
7. ?q???¢?? ? says:

   August 5, 2009 at 3:57 am

   Whenever they are interested in what that book is about.
8. Rae says:

   August 6, 2009 at 2:05 pm

   I reckon it all depends on their maturity.
   Not only do you have the chance of running into sexual content, which you probably would, there’s also terrible language, and in some cases drugs. So clearly, you wouldn’t want a complete child to be reading about that, right?

   Like I said though, if they’re mature enough and they know right from incorrect when it comes to that sort of thing, then I reckon they’re ready.
9. chill23 says:

   August 8, 2009 at 3:27 pm

   Eh, my parents never monitored, really. The only things in adult books that some might see terrible for children is sex, I never saw *** as a dirty thing or anything. Yeah, there might be violence in the books, but I was always exposed to violence as a kid, so that was never a problem.

   That being said I’m not really interested in ‘adult novels’, I prefer the fantasy genre, although I like all books, that’s just my preferred area.

   My parents had me reading, The scarlet letter, Uncle toms cabin, Silas Marner etc, like around 6th grade. I never really cared for those books though, but that’s just me.
10. Barbie says:

    August 10, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    It depends on the novel you mean. I had a transition process when I was about 13. When I was younger, I’d read the kids series by like, R.L. Stine, some Brazilian authors that wrote for pre-teens. I loved to read. They were smaller, more simple books. Then, when I was 13, I started reading more adult novels, but it was something light, too. I’d read Mary Higgins Clark’s mystery books, which present muder and these things, but without rough the details, without blood and guts description, without a heavy emotional load for the charatcers. There was some romance — but only kissing, or going out on dates. The books were adult, with adults charatcters, but were really PG. I’d read romantic comedies, too, like by Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella.
    It wasn’t until I was 17 that I started reading more sexualized and more violent books. I had a 4 year transition period, reading light adult novels before going into the real thing.
    For me, it was the best way to go. I can’t imagine reading the books I read at 18, 19 when I was 13. I probably wouldn’t have understood many of the things.
    So, I believe it’s vital to have this transition period, a change from one genre to the other could be too sudden for the readers.
    I really recommend Mary Higgins Clark, Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella for younger teens. They’re light, but adult at the same time.

    EDIT: This is about content, not comprehension level, by the way. While I see nothing incorrect with sex, I don’t reckon kids need to be exposed to detailed *** scenes at a young age. And the violence, some books are about real sick people, who do really sick things. The description of someone being eviscerated and having the killer use the hole in someone’s gut to **** them is just not something a 13 year ancient should be reading about, no matter how mature they are. IMO, anyway
11. grace says:

    August 12, 2009 at 1:04 am

    I started reading adult books when I was 10 or younger.
12. Scout<3 says:

    August 15, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    My parents never really cared…I started HP when in the third grade and has re-read it ever since. Read Twilight at least 3 times. Read Inkheart trilogy, My Sisters Keeper (?), Nineteen Minutes, etc. I was about….7-8 when I read all those til now.

    It depends on maturity, how much they know, and if you want them to read it.
13. Lynci says:

    August 18, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    When I was a child and an adolescent, no one monitored my reading — and I was a voracious reader. I frequented the local library regularly; at some point I had read all of the children’s fiction which appealed to me, and I simply gravitated to the adult section and started selecting my reading material from there. I was probably in my early teens by then. I was in high school when the novel “Peyton Place” was published; it was considered quite outrageous at that time, but everyone in school was reading it anyway! I reckon that teenagers should read whatever they want, whenever they want. You can only protect your children from life for so long; if they like to read, they will start to read adult novels when they tire of juvenile fiction.

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