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Oh I hated the accelerated reading tests. To prove a point in 5th grade, about how it's not actually making me want to read because of rewards, since I could read 20 kindergarten level books and get more points than the 2 500+ page books I was reading, and it would take less time.
Also pro tip for anyone who considers it, Battlefield Earth is NOT child appropriate. Or appropriate for anyone to read, honestly. Just skip anything by Hubbard...
I was always good at taking tests and a rather fast reader, so I didn't care at that point. What sucked for me was a few years later when I had to write summaries of the "book I read that month" because I had to be writing about the same book for the whole month when I would finish the book like 5 days in, so I was remembering what happened like 6 books ago by the end of the month.
Also unfortunately I then, many years later, learned and realized that the books I was reading were written by a pedophile. one of the series ended with them making a pedo god, and the other one had far too many details and seperate instances of children sexually exploring for a 40+ year old man to be writing about... Now I'm terrified of recommending shit I read or watched as a child because what if I am just not remembering some horrific thing that happens in it.