Erin King asked this question about The Help:
My 12 year old daughter would like to read this. I have not read it in a few years and can't remember if there is anything graphic that she will encounter. What do you think about a middle school student reading this?
Leigh Segel I got this book for my 13 year old daughter to read over Christmas vacation from school. The visceral emotions and compelling truth, knowledge and und…moreI got this book for my 13 year old daughter to read over Christmas vacation from school. The visceral emotions and compelling truth, knowledge and understaning that she absorbed through reading 'The Help' were priceless. I asked her what she thought about the book. She was inscenced that black people could not drink from the same public water fountain as white people. How unfair that would have felt to her, and how humiliating it must have felt for them.(less)
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by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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