K-12 Reading Poll

[author_by_night]

Okay. I'm going to attempt a cut yet again.

This poll is on what books you read between preschool and grade twelve - if you're unfamiliar with the American School system, that's age three through age seventeen/eighteen.

I didn't include grade level. Well, they are in order with some grade level/age in mind, but truthfully, everyone reads books at a different rate, and everyone's version of "grade level" differs. I know people who thought I was very mature for reading Baby-Sitter's club at eight years old; I know others who stopped reading them at seven years old. Same with Harry Potter - I've seen reading lists with Harry Potter for third graders and lists with Harry Potter for sixth graders.

I got some of these books out of memory, and some from lists. I tried to keep it as not-exclusively-American as possible, but some of these books are not too specific with their location (such as The Giver), and others, I have no idea what they are about, let alone where they come from. Plus, I used to live in Europe, and I read a lot of these American books.

Please do share other books you've read - my aim is to see what books kids read, and when. I was well read when I was younger, yet I never once touched most of the books I see on the book lists. (I keep seeing books that I've never heard of, and don't know if I don't remember them, or if they were never read to me, or if they were published when I'd outgrown that level).

ETA: You can pick a book you read then, or one you've read recently.

Okay, pray the cut works.


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Comments

[godricgal.livejournal.com]

Before I complete the poll, do you mean books that we had to read in school or just books of our own choice?

You really have a problem with those cuts, do you, it must be so frustrating, have you submitted a support request to LJ?

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know that, too, and another question: Do we count books that we read for the first time as adults (either because they weren't published yet when we were kids or because we hadn't gotten around to it), or just ones we read as kids?

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Books you read then or recently, to make up for "lost time", so to speak.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Oops, I'm sorry... either works!

And you know what, I probably will ask LJ support. It's getting annoying, because I know it must be clogging up people's friend's lists, and it definitely clogs up my LJ page. Gah.