Good theory, but my experience doesn't seem to jibe with it:
I was in Grady Elementary school in Tampa many long decades ago. The school went through 6th grade, no higher grades around. I was also in
6th grade, highest grade taught at the school. I tried to check out a Sherlock Holmes book from the library, and the librarian wouldn't let me because it was "too hard" for a 6th grader (not true, by the way).What was it doing in the library if 6th graders shouldn't be reading it? More important, why would a librarian object to a kid attempting a little brain stretching even if it was too hard?
Thus began my lifelong love affair with bookstores and shunning of libraries (perhaps the real story behind the librarian's actions involved some kind of guerilla marketing campaign by bookstores to turn kids off of libraries while they are young and impressionable :-).
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