Twilight
By Stephenie Meyer
I first read the Twilight series of books in college and when I was in a fourth grade classroom recently I discovered that some of the fourth grade students were reading this material. This was interesting to me because I thought that this book was geared toward an older audience. Apparently even children find the plot fun an exciting and have started to enjoy this series. The plot is a little intense, a vampire and human fall in love and his immortal and her mortal status cause problems for the couple. There were a couple of times that the relationship between the main characters got a little racy at one point in the book. There were some parts, like the big fight scene at the end of the book, that were mildly scary. I would say they are scary because there are some violence and bloodshed.
If I were a teacher or parent I would be very intentional in recommending this book to children. The child’s maturity level defiantly needs to be taken into account; if the student is not mature enough then this content might overwhelm them. Besides some mature content the writing was very straightforward, there were not many words that I think would be challenging to readers in the upper elementary grades. The writing is very descriptive and I sometimes found it very lengthy so it might be too long for some readers. Despite the lengthy descriptions I really enjoyed Twilight as well as the other books in the series. I found them all to be quite engrossing, which is probably why the books in this series have been best sellers. Meyer has a way of making the reader really care about the characters and their love story. By becoming invested in this way it has caused many people, who have read the books, say that once they finished the first book they had to finish the entire series. It is fun and exciting to escape from reality into this fantasy world of two star crossed lovers. This plot provides the perfect escape for children or adults who want to read for enjoyment and don’t want material that is content heavy and hard to follow. Twilight is a great book that is enticing and will leave the reader wanting to know more about what happened.
By Stephenie Meyer
I first read the Twilight series of books in college and when I was in a fourth grade classroom recently I discovered that some of the fourth grade students were reading this material. This was interesting to me because I thought that this book was geared toward an older audience. Apparently even children find the plot fun an exciting and have started to enjoy this series. The plot is a little intense, a vampire and human fall in love and his immortal and her mortal status cause problems for the couple. There were a couple of times that the relationship between the main characters got a little racy at one point in the book. There were some parts, like the big fight scene at the end of the book, that were mildly scary. I would say they are scary because there are some violence and bloodshed.
If I were a teacher or parent I would be very intentional in recommending this book to children. The child’s maturity level defiantly needs to be taken into account; if the student is not mature enough then this content might overwhelm them. Besides some mature content the writing was very straightforward, there were not many words that I think would be challenging to readers in the upper elementary grades. The writing is very descriptive and I sometimes found it very lengthy so it might be too long for some readers. Despite the lengthy descriptions I really enjoyed Twilight as well as the other books in the series. I found them all to be quite engrossing, which is probably why the books in this series have been best sellers. Meyer has a way of making the reader really care about the characters and their love story. By becoming invested in this way it has caused many people, who have read the books, say that once they finished the first book they had to finish the entire series. It is fun and exciting to escape from reality into this fantasy world of two star crossed lovers. This plot provides the perfect escape for children or adults who want to read for enjoyment and don’t want material that is content heavy and hard to follow. Twilight is a great book that is enticing and will leave the reader wanting to know more about what happened.
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