Guardians of Gahoole?

[loraxc]

DD picked the first book from this series out at her school book sale. Is it going to freak her out? Is there a lot of death and sadness?

She also picked out Frightful's Mountain, a sequel to My Side of the Mountain, if anyone knows about that one.

[joensally]

I find the details provided at this site very helpful:

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/guardians-gahoole-series

[loraxc]

Thanks! I'd forgotten about that site. It does slightly iffy. Maybe I'll preread so we can talk about it. She likes to be prepared,

[moominmamma]

I found Guardians very creepy and worried that my kids might find it disturbing, but it really just rolled right off them. It's got this mind-control cult theme happening which of course I read all sorts of symbolic significance into, but my kids just understood that plot thread on the level of a weird fairy tale and weren't at all creeped out.

We had a similar experience with Neil Gaiman's Coraline (the book, not the movie). My abstract-thinking then-10-year-old and I found it dark and creepy. My younger kids thought it was funny and weird and that was all.

Miranda

[loraxc]

Yeah, mind control isn't likely to bother her, but it does look like there may be sad deaths, or worse, parent-child separations and/or deaths.

[LynnS6]

Parent-child separation, sad deaths, war, kidnapping and slavery, and an evil brother who tried to kill his younger siblings.

I don't think my 6 year old could handle it. I think my 9 year old could, but he's not interested.