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

[mklutz]

The first two books in the Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey (but not the third), The Mediator series by Meg Cabot is about a girl who gets hit by lightning and dreams the locations of missing children afterwards, anything by Diana Wynne Jones but specifically Howl's Moving Castle, Fire & Hemlock, and Hexwood. Also The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.