[lil_rebbitzen]

I read Tolkien the year the first movie came out. So about 7th-8th grade (not sure which.) I loved them. I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 6th grade. Loved them too. My father was thrilled that I was reading Tolkien though (he's a big fan himself, and got me hooked via the cartoon movies). I've always considered most teen literature to be a waste of time. We had to read "The face on the milk carton" in 7th grade, and I hated it. It was so boring, and there was little morality in it.

Give me the classics any day.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good for you! You'll enjoy this great literature for life. And you'll hand them on to your children. They'll never be out of date. They're immortal.

[Mr. Silverback]

I've always considered most teen literature to be a waste of time.

I think that's one of the reasons I became a life-long reader of non-fiction. Once I cleared the little kids book stage, I read some of the fiction aimed at my age group that was supposed to be really good, and I was underwhelmed. The only teen fiction I ever read that wasn't drivel was a book called Raspberry One which was about a couple of Avenger crewmen flying against the Japanese at the end of WWII.

Heck, even when I was a kindergartener, my favorite books were Richard Scarry. :-)