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That seems about right considering kids in those Grades are usually 9 to 11 years old, but while content-wise there is nothing age-inapproriate about it for under-teens, definitely no sexual content or extreme violence, but it does contain very sophisticated language. I was avery good reader as a kid and found the book challenging when I first attempted to read it...not sure of the exact age but I think I was at least 10, maybe 11. Lot's of "big words". Some kids don't mind just skipping over words they don't understand if they aren't necessary to understand the plot, but it drove me crazy not to understand every word I read at that age, and it still bugs me now. My mother would advise me to just keep a dictionary next to me while reading if it was that important to me, but having to look up so many words took a lot of pleasure out of readingf or me. I wasn't the most patient child. But I did read it all the way through eventually, maybe when I was in high school, and loved it.
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That seems about right considering kids in those Grades are usually 9 to 11 years old, but while content-wise there is nothing age-inapproriate about it for under-teens, definitely no sexual content or extreme violence, but it does contain very sophisticated language. I was avery good reader as a kid and found the book challenging when I first attempted to read it...not sure of the exact age but I think I was at least 10, maybe 11. Lot's of "big words". Some kids don't mind just skipping over words they don't understand if they aren't necessary to understand the plot, but it drove me crazy not to understand every word I read at that age, and it still bugs me now. My mother would advise me to just keep a dictionary next to me while reading if it was that important to me, but having to look up so many words took a lot of pleasure out of readingf or me. I wasn't the most patient child. But I did read it all the way through eventually, maybe when I was in high school, and loved it.
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