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How old should you be to read Breaking Dawn?
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Jan 13, 2009 06:21PM
im 12 and i started reading bd when my parents stopped me when i was on page 13 all i read was about some car and blah blah blah i never got to read the rest coz my parents said it was inappropriate for my age not fair all i read about some car !!!!!
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Just read it when they aren't around.
tht sucks i read all of them when i waz 12 lke almost a year ago & mi mom let me read 'em
my parents didn't mind either. i read it a couple months ago.(i was 12. i've only been 13 for, like, a month and a half)
I'm 12, I read it and didn't have a problem with it.
it depends in the person, I think that more than 11 years is ok, I read it and I'm 13.
my mom is reading the series....im afraid that when she gets to bd she will get mad....but i dont think she will cuz she knows that it doesnt affect me.....it doesnt really say anthing anywaysss
Having taught middle school where we had at least one pregnant 6th grader and one pregnant 8th grader, I'd agree that the mental maturity of the reader is the most important thing to consider. Age means little compared to life experience and how you deal with those experiences. And, parents need to always be aware of what their children are reading (and doing) just to be "tuned in." Hopefully parents are considering content (I know, I live in a pretty dream world ;-) before just handing books to their kids. I'd even encourage parents to preview what their kids want to read (yes, I recognize I've just lost any cool points I had previously been allotted in life *sigh*). It's not that kids can't pick great stuff to read--they often have better taste than adults I've observed--but parents need to actively be "in the loop." And, there's some really nasty stuff on the market currently, too that I'd hope kids are avoiding.
Kudos to SM for having Bella and Edward wait until they were married and avoiding detailing the nitty-gritty of the honeymoon. And frankly, if the birth scene or pregnancy can persuade kids to not get into a bad spot themselves, I say so much the better.
Also, from what I understood, when SM was writing these she felt she had an audience that had grown up a couple years with the stories and characters and so were late teens when they got BD. I don't think many authors consider how fast avid readers consume a series as the writer's going through constructing the series (time being measured differently in the publishing world than the real world ;-).
Hope that all makes a little sense...
look i am inkiddle school- i havent read it but i am sure its not innapropriate as 1/2 the things an avredge middle schoolere says.
either way the book was a little too detailed...
to me it didnt seem like she put hardly any graphic details in it all.....i mean it was nothing like i expected
Caroline Pattinson wrote: "lol, ehh, to me, not really. i would have read these books if i was 10...like i said, it all about your maturity level"im not sure if i AM completely mature, though...
hm not mature i think but i still find it kinda... well you know... ugh no words...!!!
YES!!!!!! my favorite is still new moon, though...
I totally agree with you Alice!! My friend literally shuddered when she read those parts.
ya and i was totally complaining to my friends who already read the series
I think that it would probably be for 13 and up...? Maybe 12, depending on how mature the person reading it is, if you get what I mean... I don't want to say how old I am, but my 10-year-old sister wanted to read Twilight (just the first one) to see what it was like, but I don't think it's appropriate for her. Same goes for my mom- what she thinks, I mean. What do you guys think? Because apparently, two people in her class read it and liked it (they're not Twi-hards though), and now she wants to. I'm not letting her, and after all, the books are in MY room ;)
Nightshade, I don't think you should let ur sister read Twilight until you think she is ready, just Twilight though. I would say that if she's like my sister, you'd have to wait til shes 12. Maybe 11 for most kids.
i think you should let her read the first one....not any other ones....well until she gets a little older....there isnt anthing bad in twilight minus the fact that it is slightly violent
i just dont think... well... um... eclipse was starting that point about well... you know...
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I think that you should be atleast 11 to read breaking dawn
i was 10.......................
i think you should be older to read breaking dawn... more like 13 or 14 years old! but then again thats my opinion.
Breaking Dawn's sex scenes are more or less rated as PG-13 so I think you should be 13 and older to read the book.
yeah...those parts were REAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY weird.....
Yeah, I was like WHOA skip skip skip! Heh heh... I just skimmed over that part really fast and then kept reading...
Jade wrote: "Nightshade, I don't think you should let ur sister read Twilight until you think she is ready, just Twilight though. I would say that if she's like my sister, you'd have to wait til shes 12. Maybe ..."Ya, I thought 12 was good. At least next year, because she's just in 5th grade. I mean, I know it's not... like... Breaking Dawn, but you know. I just don't think she'd... get it, I guess... idk.
Nightshade wrote: "Yeah, I was like WHOA skip skip skip! Heh heh... I just skimmed over that part really fast and then kept reading..."yeah, i skipped a lot too!!!
people do mature at varying ages so it is hard to tell...
i still dont think they were that bad.......
i think they were detailed as ive said before
Nightshade, I have a sister your sisters age, and I'm not letting her read it. I think she is too young and too immature right now. My sister needs to mature more. I think it depends on the maturity level......
I'm 11 and Im going to read it after I finish eclipse, Edward just proposed to her and gave her the ring, It was awsome!!! Took me by surprise to !
hmm kinda, i dont remember what i did. it was monthes ago
okay so in my school district at the end of 5th grade u take FLASH which stands for "family life and sexual health" and i dont thing anything was new, and everybody was 10, so i think thats a good age, but its up to the reader & there parents
Oh ya I remember that and I thoughtbit was disgusting!!! Ewwww the memories!
it was dumb we had a school councler do it because our teacher couldnt :) 
Bella is just a horny @ss teenager, everyone is at that age. lol. But at least she and edward are in a healthy, loving relationship. If anything, this series taught me a lot of good things about love and relationships. They waited till marriage and respect each other, which is something a lot of young girls need to learn early on so they don't make poor decisions later in life.
see its both of there first relationships///
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I'm not really sure. I don't like thinking about it :P Yaagh.
LOL, but they don't get specific about it. Some "young adult" books get really into what they are doing... btu all BD does is say i went to the water, and they wake up. I mean they do say that it was great and it made Edward shew everything up, LOL, but they don't say "what they did".
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