Wow, I can't believe I now have a child old enough to read Hunger Games :P
It's a weird feeling, isn't it?
I think my kids read it around this age and didn't seem to find it too intense/scary. I was reading it along with them, so I didn't have that "old enough to read X" moment over those books, but I did have it over Ender's Game, which they read around the same time. (I didn't read Ender until high school myself, because I'd never come across it before stumbling on it in my high school library, but I knew people who'd read it much younger and seemed fine, so encouraged them to read it before watching the movie.)
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It's a weird feeling, isn't it?
I think my kids read it around this age and didn't seem to find it too intense/scary. I was reading it along with them, so I didn't have that "old enough to read X" moment over those books, but I did have it over Ender's Game, which they read around the same time. (I didn't read Ender until high school myself, because I'd never come across it before stumbling on it in my high school library, but I knew people who'd read it much younger and seemed fine, so encouraged them to read it before watching the movie.)