spending all our money on brand new novels

[faeriemaiden]

I really love my job.

Now, not every day is the giddy glory that the eight hours last Saturday were, but going to work and doing my work continuously makes me happy. Borders may not get a ringing endorsement from me as companies go, and certainly I have to wade through a lot of bureaucratic nonsense, and sell a lot of rubbish books (and even

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[barefoottomboy]

Hmmm. It's actually quite difficult for me to judge reluctant-reader compatibility, as I could at no point in my life have been described as a reluctant reader. ;-)

Having said that, I think that the thing with a lot of layered books is that you don't necessarily have to engage with all the layers. Ender's Game works as a plain exciting action/adventure story, which is I think where it attracts younger/reluctant readers, especially as Ender is young throughout the whole book. There are of course a lot of dark elements which not all children will enjoy/cope with: Amazon lists it as having a reading age of 9-12, but it probably depends a lot on what kind of nine- or twelve-year-old.

I didn't really pay attention to age categories for books until quite recently. I don't think I was properly aware of the children's/YA/adult's split for a long time: I just read books. Though I did read more 'boy' books than 'girl' books, so I'm also at a slight loss as to where to steer the post-Twilight teen girl. It looks like you're getting a bunch of useful recommendations from others, though, so that's good.