Oddly specific, but I was home visiting over Thanksgiving, my whole family has something of a book hoarding problem. My parents had saved books from my teen years that I didn’t have “room for” when I moved out. I’m now 45 (male) and found a trove of books from my “Tween years” (9-13 or so) and wonder if they’d hold up for my now 12 year old son.
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Tracker by Gary Paulson
My Side of the Mountain & The Other Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
The Dark Is Rising (series) by Susan Cooper
I wonder if these would hold up for my son, or if they’re way too old-timey, but not yet “Classics” (I will and do encourage him to read Jack London, you can glean my youthful interests by what was kept.)
Parents my age with similarly-aged kids, have you had success in turning your kids on to books that you enjoyed at their age? (Time-tongue-twister…😆)
by No_Device9450
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Give them to him and ask him if he likes it?
Oh man, I forgot all about The Dark is Rising! I read that whole series a thousand years ago.
Hatchet is a classic for sure!
Is that pronounced zennial or X-ennial and also why are you using it?
Many of these books were already on the older side when you read them.
I imagine they’ll hold up just fine.