I am glad my daughter reads, and it is NOT gossip girls. She is into classics and other useful books. She loves reading the books before the movies come out and compares the two versions. My daughter is an independent thinker, not following the latest fads, she has flown ahead of many classmates and is proud of it.
Are they assigning these books as required reading in Public Schools yet? I wonder...
My granddaughter is devouring the Chronicles of Narnia after seeing the movie. She already read the series once.
Her parents don't care what she reads, as long as it is good literature! The family is big on Tolkien, too.
My kids are being read the Scriptures, Shakespeare, Dickens, etc. from an early age.
By the time they are 12, they will consider semiliterate garbage like these "novels" an insult to their intelligence.