One of the problems appears to be the link advertising it was added onto a book club for kids 2 to 12.
Also as child who parents didn't supervise my reading I often ended up reading stuff that wasn't suitable for my maturity level purely because I was a confident reader.
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Ah. Well that certainly is a
duck up. I wonder if AI just randomly compiled the list or something like that? I don't know which option is more grim - someone doing it on purpose, someone not checking out of laziness, or no one doing it at all because society seems to have cowardly rolled over and accepted our new robot overlords.
Based on that page - trans nonsense aside - I still think it's fine for 15+ personally (though the stupid, infantilised, faux down with the kids language makes me want to punch a wall) but agree someone should be held accountable for promoting it to younger kids, accidentally or otherwise.
I too was an advanced reader and started young adult books in about grade 5. I think any sexual references just went over my head for a couple of years. Then when I was 11 I obliviously stumbled upon a fanfic that was significantly more graphic than anything I'd seen in a published novel. I was scared off the internet for a few months, then I decided to find out what that sex thing was all about by reading wikipedia articles.
Anyway, I'm of two minds about the whole thing. I can see why some people, especially parents, don't like the idea of information like that being in a school library. But at the same time, the reality is, kids are gonna find stuff you'd rather they didn't whether by accident or on purpose and there's really
duck all you can do about it. And in fact trying to keep it from them might only make it worse. When I was a tween/teen, most adults would have agreed that same-sex romance was inappropriate for children. But if same-sex romance had been available in mainstream YA books, I wouldn't have found porny fanfic at only 11.
