Would you suggest them for a 12 year old girl and an 11 year old boy? We are careful to monitor what they watch and read.
I would not suggest them for a 12 and 11 year old. It’s a bit violent and emotional (without giving away the story, and this is explained early on in the book, of course: the basic premise is an event where a bunch of teenagers enter an arena and fight until only one remains).
No. I would not recommend them for a 11 and 12 year old. My son is 13 1/2 and I kind of hesitated to even let him read them but his dad lets him do combat type video games so I felt he could handle the violence. I told him he could read them but he just put the books aside and hasn’t done so yet.
The first book is, imo, very violent. The second book not so much. Like another poster mentioned, there is no vulgar language or sex other than mentioning that Katniss is viewed naked while being prepared for battle and there are some fleeting mentions of using your body to get favors or for survival.
We home school, too, but on a 1-10 scale of home school protectiveness we are about a 5. 1 being people who don’t watch any tv and wear dresses, 10 being people who home school but are worldly-wise on the same level as public schoolers.