Bailing Out Of Classic Novels, Or How Did An Eight Year Old Wind Up Reading 'Moby-Dick' Anyway?

Because she wanted to, and only a fool would say no to any 8 year old who wanted to read Moby-Dick. 

It took a while, though, and I would have understood if she wanted to bail.  But if you start, you should finish in general, and Moby-Dick is long and convoluted but not fucking the Wake.  This was actually a good reading year; besides the big Melville, she read The Great Gatsby; To Kill A Mockingbird; A Separate Peace; The Phantom Tollbooth; and My Antonia.  She also read Mockingjay and Divergent, but every kid needs a little YA trash once in a while.  Up for the summer she has Frankenstein; Peace Breaks Out; and Fitzgerald's Odyssey.  Good stuff.