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

[bayleaf]

Well, I also think that my relationship to certain books is entirely based on how old I was when I first read them. I read Changeover when I was in high school, I think, although I might have been younger. I generally devoured fantasy & romance novels, and this was a nice mix of the two. I do own it and periodically reread parts of the book, I don't think I've sat down and read the whole thing in awhile. And yeah, I do recall that it left me wanting more.

[cathexys]

nods.

that makes perfect sense!

i have books i still love even though i *know* that they're bad and bad for me so to speak :) and there are other books i hated as a teen and then grew into them.

(personally, i think hesse is someone you can only praise as a teen...and yet the glass bead game holds a dear dear place in my heart :)