The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

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Re: The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

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I agree with your protest.
In my country, the reading level for The Outsiders is more appropriate for senior high school students.
I read the book when I was 19, and I was already in college back then.
I'd rather recommend the book for leisure reading than for academic purposes.
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Hello! I completely understand you apprehensiveness about wanting your daughter to read this book. She is still young and I assume you would like to keep her innocence as a child. But this book, like many others, were meant to push the lines. At the time of your post, your daughter is just a few years younger than the narrator of the book. Ponyboy is only fourteen and experiences some intense, traumatic things. Life-changing and life-ending types of things. For a fictional book, it is more true in the sense of how dark and twisted people and life are.
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I read this book in the 7th or 8th grade. It's a good book. We even watched the movie. Both were good. 5th graders might be too young to understand what the language means, but it shouldn't affect them to much.
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