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

[jain]

the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Dealing with Dragons, etc.) by Patricia C. Wrede
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander