The Hunger Games

53Watch it awake.

The volunteer is real. The game is the product. Not for a young reader.

The review

The first chapter is a girl who hunts and loves her sister. That girl is worth meeting. The book then does what the Capitol does: it puts children in a spectacle and asks you to care who wins. You will care. That is the problem, not a defense.

An older teen can read the trap and name it. A younger one will practice the arena. Do not hand it down because it was talked about as a dystopia. Dystopia is not a free pass.

Journal

Keep The Hunger Games in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Saints for All Occasions

64 instead of 53

Saints for All Occasions is still a novel book, and it scores 64 instead of 53. What you gain is piety: The convent is a real vocation, not a costume.

The eight

7
Industry
Katniss feeds her family by hunting. That part is solid.
7
Household
She takes her sister's place. The romance is a strategy she resents.
2
Piety
Nothing is sacred. The cameras are the god.
8
Courage
She volunteers, then has to kill to get home.
4
Republic
The districts are a warning. The pleasure of the book is still the arena.
3
Temperance
Violence is the engine, described so you keep turning pages.
6
Truth
The Capitol is a lie, and she knows it. The show still needs her to perform.
5
Stewardship
She wants her sister to live. The series will spend that want.

Where to read

Finding the page.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

59Watch it awake.

A real story of loyalty. Know what else it is teaching before you make it the whole childhood.

The review

The good of this book is specific: a boy with no one is given friends who will go down a corridor with him. The Weasley family is loud, poor, and intact. Those are not small gifts, and a child feels them.

The limit is also specific. Power is the prestige. The adults are mostly fools or secrets. If this becomes the only long story in the house, the child will practice cleverness more than duty. Read it. Put a plainer book beside it.