I need recommendations again - books for an 11 year old who is reading above her age

[Miaou]

Dd1 has just been to the library this morning but was a bit disappointed by what was on offer - we have a very small teenage section! She enjoys Malorie Blackman and Meg Rosoff, has read the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. She is not really into Alex Rider or LOTR and has outgrown Jacqueline Wilson and Harry Potter.

Any suggestions of what we can order in would be most welcome!

[zippitippitoes]

does she like science fiction at that age i liked the john wyndham books eg midwich cuckoos chocky day of the triffids

[Miaou]

Yes she might do, that's a thought - she likes some scifi.

[EffiePerine]

also historical fiction - Georgette Heyer and so on?

Agatha Christie and other detective stuff (prob not modern thrillers, on the gory side)

what about short stories?

[zippitippitoes]

or the guardians

all my suggestions will be old tho

[Slouchy]

The Dark Materials trilogy/other Pullman

Christopher PIke VG with reader who like horror but have outgrown POint Horror

Jean Plaidy for historical stuff

YY to John Wyndham

Will keep thinking

[Miaou]

Hmm, I don't think Georgette Heyer would appeal - she likes to read about people around her age/teenage relationships etc, but I don't think she is ready for books around adult relationships yet really.

Agatha Christie is a thought - she does enjoy thrillers.

Short stories - hmm, depends what I suppose - though I did suggest to her last week that she might enjoy Ray Bradbury stories.

[zippitippitoes]

the dark is rising series think its six books susan cooper

[Slouchy]

Ursula le Guin/Alan garner id she likes other world-y stuff (like HP)

[Miaou]

She's read Dark Materials, but I didn't realise there were other (appropriate) PP books, thank you!

Will look at Christopher Pike, she was into Point Horror a couple of years ago so that might be good.

Thanks for all the suggestions, keep em coming!

[Slouchy]

There is another trilogy whichs starts with Ruby in the Smoke (billy piper was in a tv adaptation a couple of years ago but don't let that put you off!)

Do you think she would enjoy Jane Eyre? At least the 1st section - the aunt's house and the school. I remember being mesmerised by this at about this age - more so when I realised it was based on true events.

[Marina]

Has she read the Edge Chronicles?
The London Eye Mystery is good
Diana Wynne Jones
Andre Norton
a book called Sophia Scrooby Preserved
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
these are all history/fantasy though :-(

[Marina]

YY to Jane Eyre and maybe also Pride and Prejudice
My Family and Other Animals

[Marina]

Also The Railway Children and The Secret Garden, both very touching children's novels that can be read and enjoyed by all ages IMO

[zippitippitoes]

rumer godden the greengage summer and kingfishers catch fire

a town like alice nevile shute

love for lydia he bates

cider with rosie laurie lee

[zippitippitoes]

a high wind in jamaica richard hughes

[RoscoPColtrane]

What about Inkheart and Inkspell if she's not already read them?

[smartiejake]

What about the James Herriot books? I read these when I was about 12 and absolutely loved them. (All Creatures great and small etc.)

Little Women?

Anne of Green Gables series?

Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls WIlder?

[Miaou]

A lot of these she has read but there are a lot that she hasn't, so thank you! James Herriot is a good idea. She has read Little Women and Little House ont he Praire, and Secret Garden and (I think Railway Children). Also Edge Chronicles. In fact now I know why we are struggling a bit

Will order some of these fromt eh library and see what she thinks!

[northernrefugee39]

My 13 yr old has just read The Declaration by Gemma Malley- now 11 yr old is gripped by it.
There's a new one just out too.
They also recently whizzed through the My story series which are good and a quick read.

[ScummyMummy]

How about Sherlock Holmes? She's the right age to obsessively read the whole oeuvre, no?

And sad orphans in adversity are always a complete winner so she should read:

Goodnight Mr Tom and the other Michelle Magorian one about Rusty who goes to America for the war and comes back all American to the horror of all her uptight English family and friends

Cynthia Voight- a whole family of orphans in a series of books and a great stern but lovely long-lost grandma

"easy" classics with orphans which she can re-read a million times and get something different from each time: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights

Little Lord Fauntleroy and Secret Garden

Lemony Snicket

[Cammelia]

Miaou my 11 year old dd (also with an adult reading age) has just read the Book Thief and is most of the way through Mao's Last Dancer

[Miaou]

Good idea Scummy, will look at those

Thanks Northern and Cammelia, she's read the My Story series but the others are new to us!

[ethanchristopher]

Black Magician's Trilogy by Trudy Canavan
Georgia Nicholson by Louise Rennison

[christywhisty]

William Nicholson - The Wind Singer which both my dcs have read/listened to the tape a few times.
DD will be 11 this week and is enjoying the Lauren St John books set in Africa.

[Miaou]

I think dd has read all the william nicholson ones, but I'll check

I've ordered a pile of these from the library, one of each sort really, so she can work her way through and see which direction she wants to go in!