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What is your favorite kid friendly book made just for traumatizing children? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did anybody else read tangerine as a kid? I still think about it pretty often and I'm 30.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My brother was assigned that in school and we had it in the RV on a camping trip, so I picked it up and read it one evening. Both the info on citrus growing, and the violence, are things I still remember. Fucked up.

Was it assigned reading? Where did you go to school? I've always wondered if that book made it into reading lists anywhere outside of Florida.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yep, assigned reading in Florida