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By first grade... well, my parents didn't want me to read Harry Potter (I was too young for it, apparently), but I'd gone on to Sherlock Holmes and a textbook on dinosaurs. A college textbook.
@Lampy: It wasn't that my parents didn't let me, it was that I didn't want to. Big books about wizards and crap? Hell no. I'mma read my Black Beauty. And my crappy Eragon. My parents were rather lenient with books and TV as long as there wasn't any serious swearing and no nudity (animes excluded...) GO FOR IT!
XD I read them in Yr One, after the second one came out. Although for the most part they were read to me. *had a tradition of reading with my mum before bed* Which was annoying because Grace had to have her books read first, and then I'd get bored and read ahead and yeah.