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Originally Posted by samhy
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. |
My daughter did read them at 9 to 10, but yes they are pretty violent and not written for that age group regardless of what reading level the text is. Newspapers are also written at a pretty low reading level as I recall.
Anyway, my daughter has an interesting personality that involves a love of macabre, and so she is not put off by darkness and violence, but a lot of kids in the 9 to 11 age range would have trouble with the Hunger Games books.
I think people should read the books they like. Once upon a time, the classics were just popular books.