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Originally Posted by BookCat
Enid Blyton was accused of this because of the vast number of books she wrote. She always denied it. Both as a child of around 8 and as an 'old' adult I've read and enjoyed her 'Mystery' series.
I think YA and New Adult - especially the latter - are silly terms. I was reading D H Lawrence, Shakespeare, Dickens and Hardy etc by the time I was 15-16. Admittedly, I chose their shorter books (Tale of Two Cities, Under the Greenwood Tree) and the 'naughty' ones (Lady Chatterley, which really bored me at that age) but I tried, even though this wasn't for school. On the other hand, during the holidays between doing my O and A levels, I read all of the Paddington Bear books!
YA? We hadn't heard of YA.
We used to get up early, before we'd gone to bed, be beaten over the head with the Complete Works of Shakespeare, sent to school with no breakfast . . .
But you try telling the young of today, they just won't believe you!
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Yep, I read Moby Dick in the 8th grade and had Shakespeare every year in high school (8th grade through 12th grade, elementary school was 1st - 7th, we didn't need no stinkin' middle school/junior high!). Of course, I also read the kid's editions of various Jules Verne and Victor Hugo books in grade school, in addition to the usual Hardy Boys, Three Investigators, Encyclopedia Brown and the like.