book ideas for christmas for 11 year old dd

[nancyw]

What does your 11 (or so) year old dd like to read? my dd loves nancy drew but she gets through them so fast it makes more sense to use the library for those.

she has enjoyed things like: nory ryans song, maggies door, the little britches series,....

any suggestions?

thanks!!

[stayinghome]

My 11 year old dd is way into the harry potter books, and the diary of a wimpy kid series.

[klosmom]

Savvy is a great book. I am lookind into Twilight for my 10yo. Not sure if it is age appropriate yet.

[SAHDS]

DD is 9 but devours books and has a more mature outlook (well, as mature as a 9 y/o can be, LOL). I bought these books last week for Christmas:

Rules

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

The View From Saturday

Feathers

Penny From Heaven

She just finished Diary of A Wimpy Kid and Maniac Magee. She loved both.

Oh, and yes to Harry Potter. DD's loved them for years (my FAV too). She also has quite a few Nancy Drew which she really likes too.

However, I've read the Twilight books and I wouldn't let my DD read them. Maybe when she hits 14, at the earliest. Although I started reading the Flowers In the Attic series when I was 11...

[Cuddlebaby]

Holes; Small Steps

[terrordactyl]

Little house of the prairie series
understood betsy

[tsalagimama]

Long Way to Chicago (and A Year Down Yonder)

The Giver

Diary of Anne Frank

Black Beauty

Feathers

A Room of My Own: A Novel

[Penuche]

The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace

[skai]

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Ronja the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Carbonel, the King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
The Tillerman series by Cynthia Voigt

Edited to say I don't have an 11-year-old but these were what I was reading at that age...

[bremen]

redwall series by brian jacques

chronicles of narnia

prydain chronicles by lloyd alexander

enchanted forest chronicles by patricia wrede

time quartet by madeleine l'engle


and i, as an adult, just looked at my book case, and listed all the "kids" books that i have there, and still read, though they are appropriate for the 5th grade set.

[Dmitrizmom]

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
The Septimus Heap Series by Angie Sage

[Oriole]

I think it's very difficult to give advice for books for a kid you've never met...
She might really enjoy something from Manga section (?) Something like this

Kitchen Princess


If she likes fantasy, then maybe Chronicles of Narnia might be just the right age, and City of Ember could be fun as well.

If you think she'll appreciate the classics, then could be The Hobbit, Black Beauty, Bambi.

[cicatrix]

Tamora Pierce - strong female characters, fantasy settings. Not overly sophisticated reads, but quite often have ethical dilemmas. My sister and I both love her writing.

Gail Carson Levine - some of her stuff is just awful. Some is great fun.

Meg Cabot - fluffy all the way, but v. popular with that age group.

If you don't mind the oldies, Enid Blyton, Lloyd Alexander and the Silver Brumby series were big faves at that point in my life.

[philomom]

Eva Ibotson

Tamora Pierce

[mammastar2]

If she likes Nancy Drew, would she enjoy trying some classic mystery authors?

Agatha Christie is the most obvious, and not hard to read at all.

[cathe]

My daughter LOVES the Theodoshia books by Robin LaFevers. There are two so far about a girl who spends most of her time in an old museum solving mysteries and freeing objects from curses. She thinks they're the best.

Also, The Mysterious Benedict Society is an amazing book that we both loved--lots of mystery and cool things that happen.

[SAHDS]

I remembered another:

: A Wrinkle In Time :

[Amaranth]

I wrote this blurb for Assoc. Content:

Best Newbery Winners for Teen Girls

I wouldn't give "Out of the Dust" (by Karen Hesse) to a girl under 13, though, it's too graphic and sad in parts. Beautiful poetry, though.

[snowyowl]

Seconding the Theodosia books. Those are great!

My dd loves the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. Other recent reads:

Twilight (I imagine she'll be getting the rest of the series for the holidays.)
The Wee Free Men/Hat Full of Sky/Wintersmith -- Terry Pratchett
Watership Down -- Richard Adams
A Drowned Maiden's Hair -- Laura Schlitz

Has anyone read Larklight by Philip Reeve? I'm thinking of getting dd a copy.

[Baby_Cakes]

Originally Posted by SAHDS

Although I started reading the Flowers In the Attic series when I was 11...

Nothing to add, but I wanted to say, ME TOO! OMG I cannot believe looking back that I was *allowed* to. I bet my mom didn't know what that series was about.

She also let me read Sybil at 11 though, and I KNOW she knew what that was about. Man, that book messed me up.