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Last year, almost all of the top 40 books read in grades nine through 12 were well below grade level. The most popular books, the three books in The Hunger Games series, were assessed to be at the fifth-grade level.
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I'm a bit confused with US grades, but fifth-grade is the last elementary school grade isn't it? If so, the students should be around 9-10 years.
Bear in mind that I haven't read The Hunger Games series, its on my TBR pile, but from what I get the contents are not quite for elementary students. I would feel somewhat more comfortable giving those books to middle school students.
So on one hand there is the difficulty level, and on the other hand there is contents level
In the end, I see reading better than not reading, whatever one is reading. It's not easy to start the habit of reading.