*eyeroll*

[conuly]

If I ask you "what does age-appropriate mean", please don't respond by saying "the right level for her actual age". See, if I knew what you considered to be "the right level for her age", I wouldn't have asked that question in the first place!

Edit: If you're curious, I'm mostly miffed because (mihi) she didn't answer my question so much as rephrase her original statement - but if I'd known what her original statement meant to begin with, I would not have had to ask the question. I usually don't ask leading questions like that just for fun.

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[leora.livejournal.com]

True, but the US has well-defined reading levels for what the expected reading ability of a 13 year old is. I think it's a large part bunk, but that is more or less what was meant.

You asked along which axis the age-appropriateness was intended to apply (i.e. sex, magic, etc.) and you received an answer - cognitive ability. I do feel that her answer conveyed enough information to know what she meant. I just think what she meant is a not enough information to pick a good book for a child, but that's a separate issue.

[conuly]

I agree with you on the latter part (but you knew that) if not the former - I certainly still have no idea what she meant. But there's no profit in arguing this for the rest of our lives.