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

[stmargarets.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this will impact your poll, but one of the great things about being a parent is getting to read all the old children's books and all the new ones that were written since you were a kid. I'm guessing my reading lapse would be titles written in the 80's since my kid was born in 1998 and his school library doesn't go that far back.

I read alot as a kid in the seventies.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'm not a parent, but I am part of a Summer Reading project at work, and it's great, some of the books the kids read. So far I haven't seen any that I've read, but I saw one book that, judging by the description, is probably the sort of book I would've read. ("Molly McGitty Had a Really Good Day", apparently about a middle schooler who has all these embarassing moments. The sort of stuff I read.)