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I read it in fourth or fifth grade, because it was there and I've always been reading a few grades ahead.
I've reread it over and over again, and the ending is still surprising.

I read it in fourth or fifth grade, because it was there and I've always been reading a few grades ahead.
I've reread it over and over again, and the ending is still surprising.

I feel like the only one who isn't shook by the end

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

We read Farenheit 451 last year too, and boy oh boy when I say that book CHANGED me- you better believe it. It also led me to find my all time favorite author, Ray Bradbury.

I love his short stories but I don’t really vibe with his novels. The plot is always amazing but it always feels very detached from the characters

We read Farenheit 451 last year too, and boy oh boy when I say that book CHANGED me- you better believe it. It also led me to find my all time favorite author, Ray Bradbury.

I love his short stories but I don’t really vibe with his novels. The plot is always amazing but it always feels very detached from the characters

I interpret it differently I guess, because whatever happened to Montag happened to me lol. I was very attached.

We read Farenheit 451 last year too, and boy oh boy when I say that book CHANGED me- you better believe it. It also led me to find my all time favorite author, Ray Bradbury.

I love his short stories but I don’t really vibe with his novels. The plot is always amazing but it always feels very detached from the characters

His short stories slap

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

I found Cinder through my school's library, iirc!
We did Lit Circles (aka like 4/5 person book clubs) and that's where I found The False Prince, which I loved

I found The Hunger Games in eighth grade in the library when we were forced to check out books. I already knew it existed though. And I found Inkheart (didn't end up reading it though). But I had trouble returning it so I don't use the school libraries. The one at my HS sucks ass.

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I read divergent in fifth grade

I got The Hunger Games for Christmas in 6th grade, then I disappeared for like a week to binge-read
Also, this is gonna be random, but:
Throwback to 6th or 7th grade when half the class went to the mall and got matching t-shirts and I felt left out then I remembered that I dislike most of them

I
I read divergent in fifth grade

I
I read divergent in fifth grade

Ooh, Divergent was good!

My poor English teacher was horrified

I
I read divergent in fifth grade

Ooh, Divergent was good!

I read it in seventh grade and this kid and I finished Allegiant around the time we had to partner up and do a book project thing on a book of our choice and we both looked at each other like DIVERGENT. He lived in my neighborhood. I don't really like him though. He jokingly (and loudly) called me a furry in the hallway during musical last year when I said I didn't want to sleep with guys or girls

We read Farenheit 451 last year too, and boy oh boy when I say that book CHANGED me- you better believe it. It also led me to find my all time favorite author, Ray Bradbury.

I love his short stories but I don’t really vibe with his novels. The plot is always amazing but it always feels very detached from the characters

His short stories slap

Heck yes they do. I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 (yet), but I've read several of his short stories and they always kinda punch you in the gut at the end.

I
I read divergent in fifth grade

In fourth grade my teacher was concerned that the books I was reading were "too low-level" (they were the only books in her classroom, mind you) so you know what she made me read?
Inkheart.
I WAS NINE.

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

ohh we had battle of the books too!! I have so many good memories from it and some of my favorite books I read from the list were Escape Under the Forever Sky, Someone Named Eva, and Out of My Mind!!
I am still salty about how we lost tho. the answer was "of the sky" and we said, "in the sky" and the judges were gonna give us the point and we would've won but noooo that one judge just had to say no to our answer. it was one word off.

until like fourth grade, I only read Beverly Cleary's books and Magic Tree House. then I read Warriors and Percy Jackson and I didn't get into PJO until a few years later when I reread it. I read Harry Potter in fifth grade and sixth grade was when I really started reading all of the Big Name books like Hunger Games and Divergent and Maze Runner and Lunar Chronicles and Inheritance Cycle. There was a weird John Green Phase around there too

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

ohh we had battle of the books too!! I have so many good memories from it and some of my favorite books I read from the list were Escape Under the Forever Sky, Someone Named Eva, and Out of My Mind!!
I am still salty about how we lost tho. the answer was "of the sky" and we said, "in the sky" and the judges were gonna give us the point and we would've won but noooo that one judge just had to say no to our answer. it was one word off.

In sixth grade we won the first two competitions only to come in last at the third and final one. It was a rough day. I had three apple juices.
also someone stole our Dunkin Donuts out of the box

sixth grade was when I really started reading all of the Big Name books like Hunger Games and Divergent and Maze Runner and Lunar Chronicles

LUNAR CHRONICLES CAN I GET A SPADES YEAH

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

ohh we had battle of the books too!! I have so many good memories from it and some of my favorite books I read from the list were Escape Under the Forever Sky, Someone Named Eva, and Out of My Mind!!
I am still salty about how we lost tho. the answer was "of the sky" and we said, "in the sky" and the judges were gonna give us the point and we would've won but noooo that one judge just had to say no to our answer. it was one word off.

In sixth grade we won the first two competitions only to come in last at the third and final one. It was a rough day. I had three apple juices.
also someone stole our Dunkin Donuts out of the box

we only had it in fifth grade and we were in the semifinals when we lost in that round to that question. fifth grade me was salty and when we watched the finals me and my friend just whispered and were like "can there please be an asteroid that hits them on the stage?" and stuff like that

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

ohh we had battle of the books too!! I have so many good memories from it and some of my favorite books I read from the list were Escape Under the Forever Sky, Someone Named Eva, and Out of My Mind!!
I am still salty about how we lost tho. the answer was "of the sky" and we said, "in the sky" and the judges were gonna give us the point and we would've won but noooo that one judge just had to say no to our answer. it was one word off.

In sixth grade we won the first two competitions only to come in last at the third and final one. It was a rough day. I had three apple juices.
also someone stole our Dunkin Donuts out of the box

we only had it in fifth grade and we were in the semifinals when we lost in that round to that question. fifth grade me was salty and when we watched the finals me and my friend just whispered and were like "can there please be an asteroid that hits them on the stage?" and stuff like that

oof. In fifth grade, my team lost by one point. one point.
Also that year, they let 18 people on the team, let them practice with us, and then unceremoniously cut six of them before the competition. _{(idk if it's the same where you are but in my state, the max amount of kids you can bring is 12. you can't even bring extras to watch the competition.)}

oh we could only have 4 people actually. 4 per team and it was just a district event so there was only 1 team per school so there were like 20 teams in all. it was a small event but it was fun lol

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

I know this is from two hours ago but
!!! I love Battle of the Books!!! Super bummed because Nebraska doesn't do it, but Alaska did and I've been doing it since fourth grade :/

I read all of the Harry Potter books in like two weeks in fourth grade because I had no friends or after school activities
I also was not very aware of the internet

The Box-Social, The Landlady, The Sound of Thunder, and The Lottery all fucked me up. When my eight grade English teacher passed The Lottery out I got really excited because I had already read it and was smiling the whole time while the class read it and the next day she called me a psychopath is front of the whole class.

Omg I read The Lottery and another really fucked up but amazing short story (Leg of Lamb I think it was called?) in 7th grade, same with Jekyll and Hyde!

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

I know this is from two hours ago but
!!! I love Battle of the Books!!! Super bummed because Nebraska doesn't do it, but Alaska did and I've been doing it since fourth grade :/

i'm always late to things it's fine It's awesome to find other people that do this!
Fun story: in seventh grade we were tying to name our team. We always had Goldfish at every meeting, without fail. We couldn't think of any names, and one girl just said "Team Goldfish" and another one yelled "The team that smiles back" and we literally couldn't think of anything better. Everyone else's teams were book-related or puns on the titles and then there we were, Team Goldfish. We actually had "the team that smiles back" on the t-shirts. It was insane.

I started Harry Potter in 4th grade and read the first 5 books, then my friend's mom told my parents that the other ones got really dark and that scared me out of finishing them until 6th grade, where I eventually read them on my kindle. I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in an Arby's parking lot at 9 PM. I read Percy Jackson in 6th grade too, I remember reading the books while at play practice.
Uhhhh I read a lot of middle grade books that I only vaguely remember in between that and really getting into YA, there was one about a girl who gets both of her legs wrecked by a car and has to be bedridden with double casts all summer (the scene that really got me was when her neighbor's younger brother fell out the window and fucking died) but I don't remember the title. Lots of James Patterson, not really Maximum Ride but definitely I Funny and Treasure Hunters.
I read The Hunger Games in 8th grade, I finished the first book in like 2 hours after buying a secondhand copy at a resale shop when visiting my grandparents. Then I read Divergent and the Lunar Chronicles but mostly stuck to younger YA.
Then in 9th grade I read a ton of Victoria/V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, the entire Red Queen series, and a bunch of more popular YA books, and now that I'm going into my junior year I plan to read a lot of really popular ones I missed out on, as well as underhyped ones

Similar to Jyn, my favorite book came from school. My school had this thing called Battle of the Books where you had to read a bunch of books and then answer super-obscure questions about them. This is where I found the masterpiece that is Cinder.

I know this is from two hours ago but
!!! I love Battle of the Books!!! Super bummed because Nebraska doesn't do it, but Alaska did and I've been doing it since fourth grade :/

i'm always late to things it's fine It's awesome to find other people that do this!
Fun story: in seventh grade we were tying to name our team. We always had Goldfish at every meeting, without fail. We couldn't think of any names, and one girl just said "Team Goldfish" and another one yelled "The team that smiles back" and we literally couldn't think of anything better. Everyone else's teams were book-related or puns on the titles and then there we were, Team Goldfish. We actually had "the team that smiles back" on the t-shirts. It was insane.

Haha that's hilarious! My team was always named after the school mascot, so we were the MSCS Ravens lmao