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  • There’s absolutely no way they’ll simultaneously do the books justice while rating it for middle schoolers.

    Like, the covers of those books deliberately don’t do them justice; they evoke a cutesy “The magical animal powers club help clueless local cop solve adorable mysteries” vibe that would have blended right in with Goosebumps and Babysitters’ Club books but they’re actually full of war trauma and body horror. How many of our boomer parents let us read them because they didn’t look into it that deep?

    And…I don’t mean to go all kids these days, I want to break that shit, BUT. My parents and grandparents would tell stories of high school seniors driving school buses. By the time I was in high school, there were laws restricting teen drivers from carrying more than one other teen as a passenger. Our parents didn’t let us grow up as far as their parents let them, and then we turned around and did it to the zoomers and alphas. They’re even more infantilzied than we were. I don’t think that’s fair to them. No duh we’ve got college kids who can’t read, they repeated the first grade 12 times.