I'm trying to get my daughter more into reading, but I need some advice on good books for her. She loved Freak the Mighty, so maybe something along that line. She's in 6th grade but probably has about a 10th grade reading level.
2006-09-20 02:58:28 · 251 answers · asked by ammecalo 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I loved that book!
Anyways, I think there's a few books by Lurlene McDaniel. I'm not sure if that's what you want your daughter to be reading right now, but that's an author you should keep in mind.
Harry Potter books
Anne of Green Gables (One of my favorite series...)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (my little cousin is reading this right now (10) and she loves them)
Artemis Fowl
If she likes fantasy with a little bit of maturity/reality then Tamora Pierce
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Fever 1793
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Walk Two Moons
Autumn Journey
Things Not Seen
Hitler's Daughter
Betsy Zane: The Rose of Fort McHenry
A Corner of the Universe
Nancy Drew series
The Theif Lord
Chronicles of Narnia
These are just a few titles I'm pulling out...
2006-09-20 15:01:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Books For 11 Yr Old Girl
2016-10-14 02:45:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flowers in the attic and the whole series by VC Andrews are very captivating. They were my book of choice from 12-16. I'm not sure what Freak the Mighty is, so i can't compare the two books, sorry. Good luck! :) The guy who wrote Tuesday's with Morrie wrote another book called "the five people you meet in heaven" my 15 year old niece read it and liked it - it was easy to follow but if she's reading at a 10th grade level, she'll have no problem.
2006-09-20 10:07:06 · answer #3 · answered by Weasel 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Freak the Mighty was realistic fiction.. so..
1. Try a series. If she likes one book from a certain series, she'll like the others. In realistic fiction, there's always the (huge) Babysitter's Club, Nancy Drew, etc.
2. From what I have sitting around my desk right now: No More Dead Dogs (Gordan Korman), Wringer (Spinelli), and The Giver (though it's not quite realistic fiction, Lois Lowry. This is a great book, and it's a trilogy.)
And if she likes fantasy- there's the Artemis Fowl series, (Eoin Colfer), The Squire's Tale, etc.
However, if she's at a 10th grade reading level, she might want to pick out her own books. Try taking her to a library and having her pick out.. maybe five books or so?
I'm a freshman now, and I read much too much and fast for my own good. So I'm not quite good with reading levels...
2006-09-20 11:41:44 · answer #4 · answered by blank. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd definitely second the answerer who put down "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret", and I'd also put classics such as Lorna Doone, Black Beauty, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, and also a few darker ones such as Of Mice and Men, The Chrysalids, maybe, maybe The Hobbit.
I wouldn't recommend any Harry Potter series at this stage as it's too easy, and primarily because I don't think they stretch the imagination in the ways that the classics will. On that note, if she's a not-so-adventurous type, I'd also recommend (like has been suggested), Enid Blyton's series of the Famous Five and the Secret Seven but these series are not that challenging.
Does she like biographies? If so get her an anthology of famous people, which could help inspire her to choose what she wants to be when she gets older.
2006-09-20 21:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by élan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hum....
Hard to remember that far back...and I was reading at a more advanced level than most...
I tried to keep my brain either in fifth and sixth grade and it wandered up to say 7th. Some of the books below will not interest, some will be too hard. I tried to remember ones that made a big impression on me for the good and that a young person might like.
You and she will find circles of books that you like. If you like one, then you will like others by the same author and stuff that is simular. You can use amazon to help in searching...
I might have read too much then and now. In 6th grade we had to take a speed reading class ... it helped. In 6th and 7th grade I would read a fiction book a day from 3 to 6pm.
I loved looking through all the time-life nature books. A little earlier I read all of Sonya Bleeker's books about Native Americans. I worked my way through Diosaur books and books about space. The 1920s boy scout manual :) .. better than then one in 1970, and I worked my way through it .. anything on camping and outdoors.
Fiction..
Black Beauty, Island of the Blue Dolphin, Return to Blue Dolphin, The Virginian, Heidi, Dr Doolittle books, Watership Down, Shardik, Maya, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea. Ann McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern. Exile's Song, Forest House. The Hobbit (lord of the rings is probably too hard) I loved the stories about the boxcar children .. Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
I cannot spell Madaline (the little french girl)
the movie Bridge to Terabithia (which is a book) made a big impression on me .. but it is powerful.
The borrowers were a great hit for me.
Rebeca of Sunnybrook Farm.
The last unicorn
Little house of the prarie, The yearling, old yeller Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan (Boxed Set) where the red furn grows.Sarah, Plain and Tall, the secret garden, a little princess, the swiss family robinson, the wizard of oz et. al ,
Return to Witch mountian.
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan (Boxed Set)
books by Tamora Pierce esp. Wild Magic and Protector of the Small. A wrinkle in time (although I found it confusing and still do)
mercedes lackey's arrows of the queen or maya
so you want to be a wizard
I was a little older ..when I worked my way through ...
All of Andre Norton's books .. Starman's son comes to mind.
All of the Narnia books. Little Women and Little Men -- but I did not like them. All of Issac Asamov .. esp I. Robot. .. Normby the mixed up robot (and others) (is for the younger set and more girlish)
the Potter books should be good.
blessings and good reading!!!!
2006-09-20 16:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I teach 6th grade kids and these are some of the books that my students love:
Charlie Bone series
Lily B. on the Brink of Cool
The Tale of Despereaux
Because of Winn Dixie
Anne of Green Gables series
Harry Potter series
Artemis Fowl series
Princess Academy
Goose Girl
The Teacher's Funeral
Inkheart
Inkspell
Dragon Rider
Tangerine
Maniac McGee
A Single Shard
Everything on a Waffle
A Year Down Yonder
2006-09-21 01:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by katethefabulous 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lessee, at that age I was reading Pat McManus(start her off on Kid Camping from Aieee to Zip), The Hobbit, Where the Red Fern Grows(I read this book a hundred times, even though the ending is depressing). Yes to Harry Potter, No to the BIble, there's rape and slavery and all kinds of horrible things in that book I read it cover to cover when I was 12 and became an atheist.
Terry Pratchett! Hilarious and mostly clean, though there are jokes she likely won't get.
Dragonlance.
I had a lot of magazine subscriptions back then, too. Might want to take her to the local bookstore and see what she picks up in the periodicals section. I always looked forward to my monthly subscrbtions coming in: Skin Diver, Outdoor Life, National Geographic, Discover, Zookbooks(when I was younger), and Metal Edge.
Dad signed me up for Sassy (Read: Please don't let my daughter grow up to be a lesbian). I think the Sassy is crap, but it did cover issues high school & younger kids deal with day-to-day, back when we think crap like 'OMG, my underwear was showing and my best friend didn't tell me' was a world-shattering event.
2006-09-20 13:51:33 · answer #8 · answered by Roadpizza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So far, there a lot of good suggestions, particularly the Fantasy & SciFi (ok, I'm biased towards thoses genres). Finding out her interests would be a good start, but here are few others various genre types that I read in my Library Lit. courses.
Stargirl -- Jerry Spinelli
Faherenheit -- Ray Bradbury
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy -- Gary D. Schmidt
Speak -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Giver -- Lois Lowry
Monster -- Walter Dean Anderson
How I Live Now -- Meg Rosoff
The House of the Scorpion -- Nancy Farmer
Surviving the Applewhites -- Stephanie S. Tolan
Holes -- Louis Sachar
His Dark Materials Trilogy -- Philip Pullman
My Louisiana Sky -- Kimberly Willis Holt
2006-09-20 04:08:33 · answer #9 · answered by Jester 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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