This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
When I was in the 3rd grade I read the whole Little House on the Prairie series to impress my classmates, we had just finished reading the first one as a class. In the end nobody cared that I read it.