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I agree with your protest.
In my country, the reading level for The Outsiders is more appropriate for senior high school students.
I read the book when I was 19, and I was already in college back then.
I'd rather recommend the book for leisure reading than for academic purposes.

Hello! I completely understand you apprehensiveness about wanting your daughter to read this book. She is still young and I assume you would like to keep her innocence as a child. But this book, like many others, were meant to push the lines. At the time of your post, your daughter is just a few years younger than the narrator of the book. Ponyboy is only fourteen and experiences some intense, traumatic things. Life-changing and life-ending types of things. For a fictional book, it is more true in the sense of how dark and twisted people and life are.

I read this book in the 7th or 8th grade. It's a good book. We even watched the movie. Both were good. 5th graders might be too young to understand what the language means, but it shouldn't affect them to much.

This book has all the many qualities that a Kid needs while growing up. It is a recommendable book for Primary school curriculum.