If you're in the uk we have these book fairs called Scholastic Book Fairs where you go
into the hall and there's like stands of books everywhere. And going to one of these was like
going to a candy shop for nerds. It was also a way to find out which one of your friends were
rich because let's be honest those one pound book vouchers weren't helping us poor kids.
Hi, it's Divya G. Welcome to my channel. What does the g stand for? The g stands for
'genius' at least that's what my parents thought I was gonna become because I've read so many
damn books as a child. I read an article that said that Jacqueline Wilson was a weirdo. Well,
it said that she was problematic which I'll get into later on but it made me want to do
an evaluative ranking of the childhood novels that I read based on how much they traumatized me into
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maker. It's from least to most traumatic, the bottom one being made me a good human being.
The next level up is decent - didn't really trigger me. A bit weird. The next one up is
sHE's brOKen! And the one right at the top is basically you need therapy.
Dork Diaries the female version of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and the better version. Decent!
Beautiful Creatures is one of those books that i read just because the cover looked like Twilight
I'm gonna put it as bit weird and that is the only thing good about this book. The Worst
Witch. Really good book but made me want to be a witch and fly around on broomsticks and i couldn't
so... for that reason, I'm giving it decent. We all know these iconic anemic hands and it's
Twilight. Nothing is as iconic or paved the way like Twilight did. Twilight carved the path for
vampire movies for love triangles for the entire YA (Young Adult) genre and it's simultaneously
set the standards for YA as well whether that's a good thing or a bad thing it's up to your decision
but i'm gonna put twilight as made me a good human being because twilight taught me what love really
is(!) Watership Down. I didn't read this book but i did watch it as a child. I was six years old
and all i remember was seeing bunnies trapped in barbed wire necks bleeding throat cut open
What does a Californian say when it pushes lentils
down a hill? Roald Dahl!
The Witches because nothing says feminism like women hating children wanting to turn them into
rats! To be honest, kids are rats anyway so... Before I Die is about a girl who is about to die
and she wants to do things before she dies and one of them includes sex and I was reading this when I
was like six years old and I honestly felt like I stumbled upon erotic fiction or something. And you
know that's when the Wattpad smut started. I'm gonna put it on She's Broken. How I Live Now by
Meg Rossoff. The only thing I remember this book was lying about it my first ever video review.
Hello everybody today I'm going to be doing a book review. I did quite like this book. I think it was
very interesting. And also a bit of incest. Bit Weird. Rich Dad Poor Dad. This is not a children's
book but my dad did insist on me reading this when I was 11 years old quite persistently. My dad has
always been obsessed with me, a first-generation immigrant, becoming a billionaire businesswoman
but to his disappointment, the only B I am is a Baddie with social anxiety. I'm gonna put this
in You Need Therapy because it reminds me of the daughter that I could have been should have been.
So the next one is called like The Disgusting Earwax Monkey Flea Bag Picking The Nose Cartoon.
Every male, to some degree, just looks like this. Children's books were incredibly gendered back
then and this was just full of earwax and bogeys. Disgusting [ __ ]. You know that is decent.
Jacqueline Wilson: Candy Floss. Jacqueline Wilson gave me friends when I had none. If you've never
had the privilege of reading a Jacqueline Wilson book in your life then you suck, But also this is
a summary of how every single plot to every single Jaqueline Wilson book ever goes: Child abuse yeah.
Child abuse yeah. Candy Floss is also about trauma. She was poor as well and
i was like RELATE! But the one thing this book did do for me is it introduced me into
the fine british delicacy of the national dish which is a chip butty which is every
40-year-old yoga mom's nightmare. Double carbs? I'm gonna put Candy Floss as
decent. Next we have the 11 plus verbal reasoning. In the uk you take these exams
called the 11 plus which is an indicator of how smart you are at age 10 to further segregate
you into high performing or low performing schools because nothing says equality(!)
I'm going to just put this as traumatic after the 11 plus that's when everything started going
downhill that's when I stopped having any fun that's when the creativity seeps out of my ears.
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. Classic. Nothing says "Britain" like being obsessed with
world war ii. I'm gonna put this as made me a good human being. Harry Potter and The First One
I didn't read harry potter until I was like 15. Now, this is a tough one harry potter really cool
except it has a lot of fatphobia a bit of racism as well and the author? Yikes. Oh I'm gonna have
to put harry potter on where's it gonna go? I'm gonna put decent, Noughts and Crosses by Malerie
Blackman now as far as I'm concerned and my school if you didn't read this book you're a racist.
Noughts and Crosses is basically the reverse world to where we live now where white people
are at the bottom of the hierarchy and black people are at the top. <Are you African-American?
i don't i don't understand the question. It's made me a good human being because
it's one of those things where children need to learn about racism and stuff as if they can't
already see in the playground. Billionaire Boy taught us from a young age that capitalism and
the wealthy class breeds greed. Putting this as made me a good human being. Roll Lentils
Matilda. The amount of underwear that I have ruined and soiled straining so hard just to see if
I could be Matilda and move the glass with my mind is unprecedented. Miss Honey was an lgbtq plus
icon she was the gold standard she walked so that everyone else could run. I'm gonna put Matilda as
decent. Because if it wasn't from the underwear- Cookie. As the title suggests it's about a girl
who struggles a bit with her weight and when I read this I slurped that is up I was like girl,
me too! I too just put ketchup on my chocolate. Put ketchup on my rice. Now,
I'm gonna put Cookie up here just because I have I don't have a reason. Diary of Anne Frank
it's based on true stories innit. Horrible histories! Terrible Tudors!
This is where my parents thought I was going to become a genius because I just read so
many horrible histories horrible science horrible everything but unfortunately no.
I'm going to put this as here because you know.
Next up we have these fairy books there was like a hundred of them it was like capitalism gone
wild. I am convinced that Peter Pan 2003 and Jeremy Sumpter made these fairy books popular.
We're all buying fairy books off the bookshelf just to keep Tinkerbell and all the other fairies
alive. I do believe in fairies I do I do. That was my religious chant I chanted that more than
I prayed to god (I'm an atheist). I'm gonna put bit weird. This is the cover Wuthering Heights by
Emily Bronte. This was after I read Twilight and I was just in a vampire mood. Wuthering Heights
ended up NOT being about vampires. Just for that reason, I'm gonna put it as she's broken because
this put me off classics for life truly don't read a classic thinking you're gonna get twilight.
My man's hungry: The Hungry Caterpillar. This is a book about a caterpillar who wakes up and
immediately goes into a downward spiral of what could be considered an eating disorder. Like the
title suggests, caterpillar... capitalism... this book is about capitalism because a lot of the food
that this caterpillar consumes is not natural - it's artificial and the capitalist society rests
on the belief that you need these products to become a better version of yourself and that's
why The Hungry Caterpillar is eating and munching away. It's honestly a dangerous ideology for kids
and I don't think they should be reading this so, for that reason, I'm gonna put this as broken. And
last but not least My Sister Jodie. This is a book about two sisters one's called Jodie the
other one I don't remember. Spoiler alert! This is the most traumatizing book that I've ever read in
my entire life. It introduced me to the concept of death. Jodie is at the top of a school tower
she falls out of the building and does a little Gamora all the way down. And I've never cried so
much in my entire life over a Jaqueline Wilson book and that's why I think Jaqueline Wilson is
evil. So I don't know why I didn't add this but there's another one called love letters
there's a 14-year-old girl called Prudence- Prude. She's 14 she moves into a new school
and her dad is abusive. Child abuse yeah! And she has daddy issues! So she latches on to the
next male figure that she knows! Her teacher Rax! Who's a grown-ass teacher and instead of thinking
"maybe I'm gonna catch a case" and Prudence the 14-year-old goes to her grown-ass teacher and
says 'hey I love you' and he says 'you're gonna be the girl that makes my teaching worthwhile'
and she kisses him and he pulls away but then he kisses her back! And guess what happens next! does
he go to jail like he should? no! The 14-year-old gets expelled and he gets to keep his job
an actual child predator, a groomer, a pedo man gets to keep his job and the girl gets expelled
if that doesn't teach you [ __ ] shaming victim blaming that I don't know what will! It's like,
Jacqueline Wilson, just because you had Boy/Girl as the top result on your BDSM test doesn't mean
that you need to write a children's book about it! So yeah those are my rankings about all the
childhood books that traumatized me deeply as a child and I encourage you guys to let
me know what childhood books you read that now you grow up and you're like eh. What was your
favourite author? What was your favourite book? I wanna know and I hope that you enjoyed this video
and I'll see you guys I don't know when. All right stay safe peace out yeah okay
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