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Jessica
So my evil English teacher is making us read a book every quarter, and she said for our 4th quarter we could pick any book that was 230 pages, fiction, and at the 10th grade reading level. Since i absolutely LOVE this book and i would actually read it again, it was one of my first choices. My other choices we out ruled because they were all written in verse, which i love. It meets all the other requirements, but i don't know if it meets the "At our grade level" requirements. Yes, i am in 10th grade, and yes if you have read the book you would know there is a lot of cursing, but what my teacher doesn't know wont kill her. So is it "at grade level" or no?
Answer
yes
yes
People say Harry Potter is a children's book and Twilight is not?
Luna Lestr
I had this argument with this girl, on how Harry Potter is a better quality book than Twilight. She claimed that Harry Potter was a children's book, which pissed me off. The style of writing in Twilight is lustful stuff written in a 4th grade reading level! Harry Potter, is much much MUCH deeper and sometimes a little too dark for children, although an amazing book. (Not to mention message Rowling put in her writing!) Does anyone agree?
Answer
Okay, so I looked it up on the Lexile Framework reading level scale (if you don't care scroll down)....
Twilight: 720L
New moon: 690L
Eclipse: 670L
Breaking Dawn: 690L
Harry Potter and the....
Sorcerer's Stone: 880L
Chamber of Secrets: 940L
Prisoner of Azkaban: 880L
Goblet of Fire: 880L
Order of the Phoenix: 950L
Half Blood Prince: 1030L
Deathly Hallows: 980L
(Tales of Beedle the Bard: 1290L, but that doesn't really count)
So to sum it up, Twilight books are at a third grade level, and Harry Potter books are at a sixth grade level, which is kind of funny because the Twilights are geared towards like a teenage crowd. The first Harry Potter is definitely a children's book, and so are the first through about the fourth...after that, they immediately get a lot darker and more mature.
As far as development goes, there's a LOT in HP...characters change all the time, they get older and change their opinions and we see new parts of their character. But in Twilight, there's almost none...even when huge situations take place, the characters NEVER change. Their reactions and their thoughts are always the same. The biggest one is like when Edward leaves and then he comes back, that should really change the way Bella thinks. But Bella thinks about him EXACTLY the way she did before, which is very unrealistic.
Plotwise, the reason why Harry Potter is so much more developed is because the author had her ENTIRE story planned out from the very beginning. So everything ties together by the end, and the story can get really complex and deep without it seeming ridiculous and sudden. But in Twilight, it was kind of a "let's add another book to the series" sort of thing after the first one did so well. So there was no room for a lot of depth to any of the conflicts because if they'd been developed too much it would have seemed kind of random.
So yeah, Harry Potter is wayyyy deeper. And better. =D
Okay, so I looked it up on the Lexile Framework reading level scale (if you don't care scroll down)....
Twilight: 720L
New moon: 690L
Eclipse: 670L
Breaking Dawn: 690L
Harry Potter and the....
Sorcerer's Stone: 880L
Chamber of Secrets: 940L
Prisoner of Azkaban: 880L
Goblet of Fire: 880L
Order of the Phoenix: 950L
Half Blood Prince: 1030L
Deathly Hallows: 980L
(Tales of Beedle the Bard: 1290L, but that doesn't really count)
So to sum it up, Twilight books are at a third grade level, and Harry Potter books are at a sixth grade level, which is kind of funny because the Twilights are geared towards like a teenage crowd. The first Harry Potter is definitely a children's book, and so are the first through about the fourth...after that, they immediately get a lot darker and more mature.
As far as development goes, there's a LOT in HP...characters change all the time, they get older and change their opinions and we see new parts of their character. But in Twilight, there's almost none...even when huge situations take place, the characters NEVER change. Their reactions and their thoughts are always the same. The biggest one is like when Edward leaves and then he comes back, that should really change the way Bella thinks. But Bella thinks about him EXACTLY the way she did before, which is very unrealistic.
Plotwise, the reason why Harry Potter is so much more developed is because the author had her ENTIRE story planned out from the very beginning. So everything ties together by the end, and the story can get really complex and deep without it seeming ridiculous and sudden. But in Twilight, it was kind of a "let's add another book to the series" sort of thing after the first one did so well. So there was no room for a lot of depth to any of the conflicts because if they'd been developed too much it would have seemed kind of random.
So yeah, Harry Potter is wayyyy deeper. And better. =D
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