You beat me by a few grades. Read
Ben-Hur when I was in 8th grade. After Mom gave final warning for lights out at bedtime...read with a flashlight under the covers.
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LOL!, I wasn't allowed my own flashlight. Luckily, my bed was fairly close to the closet on one side, so I would turn on the closet light and slide the closet door open a crack. Just enough to to read if I tipped the page toward the closet.
I'm sure my kids use their flashlights (yeah, they've got 'em even if I didn't) to read under the covers after lights out, but I haven't "busted" them for it yet.