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   From: kuraebakayarou.lurkerdrome@sbcglobal.net   
      
   "Dave Baranyi"  wrote in message   
   news:fafe3m$871$1@aioe.org...   
   > > For a child THAT young? Uh...nothing, basically. MAYBE Sailormoon, but   
   > > even   
   > > that is a bit violent and mature.   
   >   
   > Maybe we need to come up with a list of non-H manga that are likely to be   
   > inappropriate for parents of pre-teens to find out that their kids are   
   > reading...    
      
   Dude, that'd take years, and would end up being summed up as "99% of   
   everything published in Japan".   
      
   > (Remembering the efforts that I used to go through as a pre-teen to find   
   > used bookstores where any paperback could be bought by anyone, and also   
   > which librarians didn't care if I checked books out of the non-kid   
   sections   
   > of the Public Library...)   
      
   I never had problems with public libraries, but I had one very, very nasty   
   experience with the library of a Catholic school I went to for three months   
   in fourth grade, which further cemented my lifelong hatred of nuns.   
      
   I was reading a lot of Judy Blume and the like back then. I'd read most of   
   Blume's books, and I had made it down the list to "Are You There, God? It's   
   Me, Margaret."   
      
   The library nun refused to allow me to check out the book, because it was   
   "for girls, not for boys", and argued me down until I was forced to put the   
   book back on the shelf and pick something "for boys".   
      
   The fact that at the age of 10, I *knew* that was a load of bullshit and was   
   incensed by it, probably says a lot for the reading level I was on at the   
   time...pretty well past Judy Blume, in all honesty.   
      
   (Ironically, the book I read in its stead was "Ender's Game", which...WHY   
   the HELL was it in a Catholic school library to begin with?)   
      
   (I never DID get around to reading the Margaret book, incidentally.)   
      
   (...of course, even with my still immature mentality, I think I've pretty   
   much outgrown Judy Blume by now...)   
      
   (...oh goddammit, now I want to read Superfudge again. X_X)   
      
      
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