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

[ecaterin]

*smacks HTML*

Well, obviously the awesome sarahtales's Demon's Lexicon is a must :)

Don't know whether she'd look down her nose at them, but at that age (and still in middle age :P) I loved Engle's Time quartet - those are wonderful and timeless books and keep me riveted every time I read them :)

And last but definitely not least, Ursula K. LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea trilogy (the later Earthsea books may be a bit disturbing to a 5th grade girl). Surely the best YA fantasy books in the past century :)

[ecaterin]

That's L'Engle of course. Why is code messing with me today? :D