You definitely want to read it and I recommend reading it with her and discussing it. It is now required reading in public schools and English teachers with whom I have spoken say they have rarely seen a book "teach" the way this one does. You can draw so many parallels to modern life - whether the exploitation of people working in the diamond mines of Africa (killing for the sake of vanity) or the practice of dumping toxic waste in the outlying "districts" (third world countries) by the ruling nations.

It's marvelous!!!