I'm not really worried about my kid in particular - after all, I read _The Exorcist_ the summer before fifth grade. I'm just genuinely curious about whether a book with those themes is appropriate for the average 11 year old. If he'd found it on his own in *my* library, I would not have told him not to read it, but I would wait awhile before I pointed it out to him.
ObDisclosure: my 11 year old has been formally vetted as "gifted" and I'll talk to him about the book as he reads it.
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