Our 4th grader, M, loves to read, and is very into the Harry Potter books. But we have this rule that she can't read them until at least one of us reads them first. Because, you know, 4th grade is pretty young to be reading about murder and death and even worse, dating, which I hear he starts in the later books. Not ready for that talk, yet!
She plowed through the first 4 books last year in 3rd grade and they started to get more violent, so we told her we wanted her to wait a while before she read any more. You can guess how that went over. We were thinking like 2 years or so, but she browbeat us all summer so finally we caved and Momster started reading the 5th book. It's pretty thick, and Momster's a busy gal, but she read a few chapters when she could and after several weeks or a month or something she finished it. Every morning during this time M would look at the page number Momster was on and tell me how many were left. Finally, last Thursday morning, M came pounding at the door when I was taking my shower and hollered in, "Dad, Mom finished it! I can start Harry Potter 5!!!!"
So today M finished it. 870 pages, 3 days. And yes, she did go to school Thursday and Friday, so I'm not exactly sure when she did it, but she did. Now I guess we'll see how long it is before we start hearing about HP #6.
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that is hilarious! what a funny kid. i've been reading anna karenina for like 3 months. i wonder how long that would take her?
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