it's probably better to get kids to reach in their reading than to keep them juvenile, and give them books below their reading level.

but, i'm not the first person to point out that i didn't understand much of what i read at that age, be it asimov or whatever else. and, i could hardly have been honestly expected to.

everybody's gotta learn, somehow. right? a lot of kids learn to read with asimov, only to realize they didn't actually understand what they were reading, after all. at all.