 Mystery: March 19, 2014 Issue [#6219] |
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This week: Interview With the Pre-teen Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Hello Mystery writers and readers. Following up on a suggestion by Quick-Quill  , I interviewed my 12-year old to find out what pre-teens like in mystery fiction. |
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Interview With the Pre-teen
How hidden can those clues really be to be a satisfying read?
In my quest to understand younger readers better, I used one of my home resources: my 12-year-old middle son. He is an avid reader and is the type who will secretly stay up to read late or fill some downtime with a book rather than watching TV. Although he's reading a lot, as you can see from his answers below, getting information doesn't yield much, but I hope that those among you without access to pre-teens but you want to write for that age slice finds it a little enlightening.
Q: Which books have you read recently?
A: Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson, and Harry Potter.
Q: Were any of those mysteries?
A: Percy Jackson has some mysteries in it that get explained in the end.
Q: Do you enjoy riddles in stories and collecting clues?
A: A little.
Q: Do you like obvious clues, possibly repeated, or clues that are a bit more hidden and only mentioned once?
A: I like obvious clues that get repeated.
Q: How do you feel as a reader when the writer mentions clues in the end as the reason for the ending, but you don't remember seeing the clue in the story?
A: Frustrated.
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I got the following comment for my last Mystery Newsletter "Leave Enough Clues" :
Donnamae  wrote: I have long held that the skill of critical thinking is underrated, thus under-taught. I think it becomes a potentially dangerous problem, for two examples, in the areas of public health and politics. People could actually help their children develop this skill. My grandmother did it for me in the fifties and sixties, as we watched television together. She would "pooh-pooh" the claims in the advertising, explaining that a drawing of a rubber wedge in the heel of a sneaker does not prove that the shoe could make you "run faster and jump higher."
Well said. Critical thinking has become near extinct in middle-schoolers and high-schoolers due to standartized testing, it's scary. Interestingly, all it would take to remedy that would be to read more fairy tales. Not the Disney versions, the Grimm's collections or other local collections and then talk about them with kids. Those stories always have a message that transcends time and culture because the tales revolve around human nature and its aberrations. I think I will bring out the Grimm's tales this week.
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