hurtstotouchfire's Journal: My kid sister is reading Mercedes Lackey

My kid sister is growing up so well. She's 13. She's got boobs. It's disturbing. But she has been straying from Harry Potter into slightly less mainstream scifi/fantasy. This is my moment to indoctrinate her. I've never spent so much time on one person's christmas present.

I gave her brother the complete hitchhiker's guide last year, so that's out of the question. I've also given them loads of Terry Pratchett too. I just read The Girl Who Knew Tomorrow by Zoa Sherburne, and it seems like a good kiddish sci-fi/fantasy type deal. All I really want is to expose her to some good scifi or fantasy, but it's got to be age appropriate. She reads at a very high level, but I don't want to give her gibson or stephenson, or any drug-riddled stories (so much for cyberpunk).

Any suggestions?

Age appropriate to a 13 year old?

[Pii]

Wow, that's a tough line to draw...

(I stumbled across your journal entry while searching for Christmas list ideas)

I don't know much about what 13 year old girls like to read, but when I was a lad of 13, I was reading all manner of things that I would prefer my own children not be reading.

I guess the question you should be trying to answer is, "What isn't fit for 13 year old reading?"

I mean, by 13, a lot of girls today are having sex, or their friends are. (I'm not trying to dis your sister.) They

Re:Age appropriate to a 13 year old?

[hurtstotouchfire]

I'm sure that encouraging her love of reading outweighs my desire to protect her. But I'm pretty liberal, and I definitly don't regret having read a little above my level when I was young. I just nabbed things off my parents bookshelves.

Luckily, I probably won't end up getting her anything terribly inappropriate because her mother (our mother) is pretty vehemently Christian. I'm not obviously, but I don't have a big problem with Christianity or anything.