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* ''[[Duumvirate]]'' lives and breathes this trope. Even the littlest kids are perfectly willing to kill at the drop of a hat. It's all just a game to them.
* Rather freakily lampshaded in ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', where the childhood conditioning all the citizens are exposed to encourages children to act sexually towards each other at about ''pre-school'' age. The people administering said conditioning laugh about how those poor unenlightened souls way back when would have treated such behavior as disturbing.
* At the age of twelve, [[Lolita]] seduces her stepfather. He's not her first lover. ([[Unreliable Narrator|Or at least that's what daddy wants us to think]].)
** It quickly becomes obvious that while she fooled around a bit at summer camp, she's not really prepared for what she's getting into when she gives a grown (and rather disturbed) man the opportunity he's been waiting for.
* ''[[Gone (novel)]]''
* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series. Oh, Dark Forest Gates, the ''[[Redwall]]'' series. The titular first installment features a season-and-a-half year old squirrel—described in the text as a baby and not talking yet—who is personally responsible for the horrible deaths of ''at least'' ten vermin, and assists in the killing of many others by rolling a hedgehog over them ''in the middle of a battlefield''. He's also given a sharp dagger by a hare who thinks nothing unusual of a kid stabbing people with one hand and sucking the other. By comparison, the young, gangly teenager that goes on to see new friends and an adoptive father/Abbot poisoned to death, kills massive numbers of vermin, faces and decapitates a snake that could eat him alive, and comes plummeting from the top of an Abbey with a bird stuck in his shoulder, all by the age of thirteen seasons, seems almost reasonable. Oh, and gets married and has a son before he's sixteen seasons. Combines with [[Angst? What Angst?]]. This may have been intentional [[Values Dissonance]], as the series is set in pseudo-10th century England {{smallcaps|[[Furry Fandom|WITH FURRIES]]}}, but has been somewhat dialed down in the sequels... which still include the slavery of preteen children and [[Harmful to Minors|the murder of their slavers]].
* In the ''[[Green-Sky Trilogy]]'', [[Ill Girl|Pomma's]] addiction to [[Fantastic Drug|wissenberries]].
* ''[[The Alienist]]''
* ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'': Aside from the fact that the viewpoint characters are only 16 – 17 years old, and essentially learning to become guerrilla fighters as the series progresses, the group of kids living in Stratton are a more depressing version of the trope: by ''The Night Is For Hunting'', when the main characters meet them, they are well-accustomed to gunfights and mugging people in alleyways.
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* [[Artemis Fowl]]
* [[Ender's Game|Ender Wiggin]], at ''six'', beats a bully ''to death''
** Somewhat justified in that the school he attends
* Tom Riddle from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' was an ultimately creepy kid. As a child, he tormented his fellow orphans - even murdering one's pet rabbit. When he went to Hogwarts he learned to be sly and manipulative, continuing his evil acts and a couple of murders without being suspected by the older, more powerful wizards who could pose a threat. Then, of course, he became Lord Voldemort.
* Arya Stark from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''
* In ''[[The Iron King]]'', Meghan is shocked to hear her four-year-old half-brother tell her best friend "Go [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] yourself!" Justified in that {{spoiler|the kid is actually a changeling. Her real half-brother is a perfectly normal, sweet kid}}.
* Daine in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''Immortals'' series
* The main plot point of ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' - teens and preteens as young as twelve forced into an arena to fight each other to the death. And some of them are disturbingly good at it.
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' mentions "the Little Sultana" who enjoyed torturing people with the Phantom's [[Death Trap|wonderful devices.]]
* In ''The Coldest Winter Ever'' by Sister Souljah, Winter, the 16 year old [[Mafia Princess|daughter of a drug dealer]], engages in lots of adult behaviors. For example, she offhandedly mentions that she lost her virginity at age 12, which was "kind of late". The novel ends with her
* Mormon in ''[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]]'' begins leading the entire Nephite army at the age of 15.
* [[Robert Westall]]'s ''[[The Machine Gunners]]'' presents some examples of this. The plot of the book involves a group of [[World War II|wartime]] children between 11 and 16 who steal a working machine gun from a crashed plane, hide it from the authorities, construct a bunker and emplacement for it; hiding two of their number from the adults and later a captured German airman in said bunker and open fire on a group of
* Although [[Deadpan Snarker|Asher]] and [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Otto]] are the worst offenders, ''[[Someone Else's
* In ''Crooked House'' by [[Agatha Christie]], twelve
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