Being disturbing is orthogonal to literature quality. It shouldn&#x27;t be avoided, but &#x27;disturbing&#x27; by itself has no particular merit, any more than science fiction or romance by itself has particular merit.<p>Specifically, if you are going to force kids to read books in a class, you should find something that increases their worldview, gives them something new to think about, and whether that is disturbing or not shouldn&#x27;t matter.