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Thanks all for the thoughtful replies, lots of fruit for thought.
I confess that I actually expected more calls for censoring her reading because I'd gotten the impression that mobileread readers fall more on the conservative side -- I was curious to see why people would feel that way. Perhaps I misread the lay of the land. Or, maybe, avid readers tend to be the types who disapprove of banning books. :-) (my mom actually tried to have Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" removed from my school library when it first came out -- I bought a 30th anniversary copy with CD for my daughter)
A few people expressed a similar comment... that they read books that had adult themes, but they didn't understand them. I feel the same way. I listen to songs now that I remember from my childhood and I think "whoa... it said THAT?!?". Thing is, as bjones6416 pointed out, kids today seem to understand a whole lot more. Maybe it's just my daughter, maybe she's just naturally more mature than I was (I think that she is), but she is capable of critical thought and reasoning at a level that I'm quite certain that I wasn't and seems to understand far more about what's going on around her than I did.
Perhaps the answer for me is that I should feel out how much she's actually understanding and take it from there... if she's glossing over the details, pointing them out might not be the best thing to do.
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