It ain’t easy but it’s there for you.ĭella and Suki are inseparable. But for those kids that want a book can be honest with them about the world, written at their age-level, with funny parts and a happy ending where things get better, this is that book. Not every 12-year-old is going to be ready for the abuse and pain addressed in Bradley’s latest. I would have refused, which is fine because we librarians truly believe that part of our job is to provide the right book for the right reader. And no doubt, if Fighting Words had been around then, they would have recommended it to me. They liked difficult books with tough issues that embraced the real world and all its ugly flaws. My best friend had a very different view of things. I just happened to be privileged enough to have the choice not to think about serious issues if I didn’t want to (and I didn’t). This wasn’t because there were any deep-seated issues in my own life that needed addressing.
I had a kind of sixth sense about it, so throughout the years I studiously avoided Bridge to Terabithia, Julie of the Wolves, and anything else that might possibly be considered serious in some way.
As a child I had absolutely no interest in reading books that contained any kind of trauma.
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