Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After buying and reading the book - I feel that this age range (stated on amazon.com as 8 and up) is off and that the book is better suited to older readers - I would say at least 10 and up, maybe 12. This is because book covers various sensitive subjects including: suicide, sexual predators online and at the mall, and being pressured to go to boy/girl parties and play games like spin the bottle and truth or dare. It's important to note that these sensitive topics are covered in (what I consider to be) a careless way. For example, the suicide issue comes up early in the book under "nosy questions." For me, this was really a problem - my young reader wasn't familiar with the term and had questions about it that I'd rather have waited to deal with. It was so very stupid to include this question because, seriously, under "nosy questions" there were a hundred other topics they could have used there and to bring up suicide in a book rated for 8 and up was way off the mark. Beyond this, I felt that there were a number of other, similar, issues - as listed above. I felt that these topics were not essential to the topic of good manners and did not need to be included here. They would have been better in a book for older kids and also in a book on different topics - maybe they need to write a smart guide to starting to date or a smart guide to staying safe online and at the mall; overall, I just didn't feel they were necessary to learn about good manners or that they were age appropriate for 8 year olds.