Recommend a book?

[resonant]

The kidlet is looking for books to buy a friend. What we know about the friend's reading habits: She's turning eleven, and she's all into the Twilight series.

So. Rec us meaty-yet-fifth-grade-appropriate books that are better than Twilight?

Comments

[cathexys]

You don't find Avi's books too preachy? My kid had to read Charlotte Doyle last summer, and while he read his way through 5 Pendragon books and the last two Percy Jackson in a month, I could barely get him to finish that book at the same time. And his two best friends had the same response. It might be boys, though. But there was another one of his they had to read, and it seemed similarly didactic?

[bayleaf]

I don't, no. Granted, It's been awhile since I read some of them, but I have nothing but positive memories of those. :shrugs:

[cathexys]

And of course saying I didn't like the books when you just recced them is totally asinine! I apologize!!!

FWIW, they do get checked out fairly regularly at the school library it seems...And my kid certainly has weird taste, I'm the first to admit :)