Looked up Bronxwood on fab.Lexile.com as you suggested and here’s what I found, “The Lexile “Power V™” Word Selector identifies up to 10 challenging words in each book that are important for students to know.” – “cal, fucked, jasmine, mainstreamed, sixteens, disrespected, kinda, alright, dudes, sexier”…Oh and within first sentance of the book is the word “shit” If it’s in the first sentence I wonder how many more profanities there are. I love what Deborah brought up about how the vocab words should match the maturity of the books subject matter. I think that’s an excellent point! If a teen doesn’t know “disrespected, kinda, alright”…but the book has people having sex and Deborah mentioned a 40 year old man waiting to take a teen girl somewhere until she was “age of consent”, 16?! This is adult material (and not healthy material in my opinion unless story is redemptive in nature) and were allowing 14/15 year olds to read? Her example came from another book I think when she said, “Bud and calendar were some of the vocab words for the a book dealing with homoexuality…so the word calendar eludes you but you are supposed to be mature enough to deal with the topic of homsexuality?!” So grateful I can homeschool but also makes me feel I need to pre-read everything Regarding books like Boxcar Children…I had NO idea this one had been edited from original!…is that without a warning like in the front of Boxcar children reprints, does it say edited, abridged, or anything?