RE: So, My 9-year-old picked up Animal Farm… AND finished it... and why homeschooling revolutionized reading and changed everything.

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The summer I was 9 I read The Voyage of HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin and The Double Helix by James D Crick, as well as 10 of the abridged plays of Shakespeare. I wasn't homeschooled, though. I was just doing it for pleasure. That was on top of the other 10 required reading books from the list that my private school supplied us to choose from.