Showing posts with label eager readers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eager readers. Show all posts

Oct 25, 2012

Middle Grade or YA? A Mother Writes for Advanced Readers


When your first grader (or third grader) gobbles up Harry Potter, what’s next? When your eager reader begins to look past the chapter book section in the library to the middle-grade section and beyond, how should you steer that child? In a society that pushes early sexualization of children and treats tweens as consumers controlling parent purse strings, is it possible to help children grow their brains without cutting short their childhoods?