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Post by Kip, Sophie, Mimi on May 27, 2005 10:49:58 GMT -5
I liked it.
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Post by Tulip on Sept 2, 2005 21:56:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I read all three of those books!! They are REALLY good, but there is some stuff in the second one that would NOT be apropriate for girls younger than 11!!
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Post by Mel on Sept 13, 2005 20:20:14 GMT -5
The third one has stuff that is way too inappropriate for the age limit of 12.
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Post by tulip on Sept 14, 2005 23:37:48 GMT -5
I thought the second one was more inappropriate!!
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Post by Kip, Sophie, Mimi on Sept 22, 2005 8:26:06 GMT -5
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, June 18, 2003 Reviewer: A reader While overall, I thought this book was fine and possibly engaging for young women, I strongly think the 12 year old age guideline is too young, both for some of the contents of the plot and for the deeper and more meaningful aspects of what a girl could discover from the book. In other words, I thought the chararacters were interesting to an older teen aged girl, but 12 year olds are not teenagers. In fact, these characters are 15 and almost 16, all about to be juniors in high school. And those ages, I think, as a mother, are the appropriate ages for a girl to be reading this book. Not only is there mature sexual content and encounter (albeit, which one of the characters cannot handle), the characters themselves, and their metamorphises, what they go through that summer, what they learn about themselves, will be much more understandable and appropriate to a 14 or 15 or 16 year old, then to an impressionable 12 or 13 year old. I would liken it to reading Jane Eyre, or Little Women, before a girl is old enough to understand the levels, the deep meaning, the beauty of these books. Sure, girls of 11 and 12 are capable of reading these books, but it is the parents' jobs to say "not yet". I also am disturbed that none of the other reviewers that I read on line seem to understand that one of the characters is self-destructively manic depressive and that would be something ( in fact I would urge any mother who lets her daughter read this book) to discuss the behaviors with her daughter. That is so stupid. They aren't that inappropriate. OMG, this lady's an effing idiot. I read those books when I was ten.
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Vicky
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Post by Vicky on Sept 22, 2005 13:16:01 GMT -5
I haven't read the book but the lady said stuff about being deppressed and medamophises (i can't spell) . Well its not like 12 year olds don't go through deppression and puberty too! I am 11 and I have gone through both! What does this lady want her 12 year old kid reading picture books? ?? I mean GOSH 12 year olds a too miture enough!
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Post by Alyssa on Sept 22, 2005 13:57:10 GMT -5
I haven't read the book but the lady said stuff about being deppressed and medamophises (i can't spell) . Well its not like 12 year olds don't go through deppression and puberty too! I am 11 and I have gone through both! What does this lady want her 12 year old kid reading picture books? ?? I mean GOSH 12 year olds a too miture enough! lol,xD
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Post by Mel on Sept 22, 2005 18:47:57 GMT -5
I kind of agree with that lady. I think some parts can get very descriptive and I don't really want to read about their love lives and them almost having sex.............. I mean I'm mature but I think the 12 year old age limit is way too young. I think it would be better being a book for 13 + up.
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