Anyone know of any good thriller books for my daughter?

Question

She's 10 years old, but loves thrillers. She's read the Cirque Du Freak series and loved it. She loves the Harry Potter series. She's even read some Steven King, but it was his fantasy book, not a thriller. She reads them so quickly, I have a hard time keeping her with books that will challenge her. Does anyone have any ideas?

She's 10 years old, but loves horror/thrillers. She's read the Cirque Du Freak series and loved it. She loves the Harry Potter series. She's even read some Steven King, but it was his fantasy book (Eyes of a Dragon), not a thriller. She reads them so quickly, I have a hard time keeping her with books that will challenge her. Does anyone have any ideas? She already read the Goosebumps a couple years ago.

Answer 1

I read a lot, and these are some of my all time favorites!
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz has six books in it so far,and I love it !
The keys to the kindom by Garth Nix is a mystery but it is hard to put down.
Maximum Ride by James Patterson is very funny and a great thriller but I would not recomend it to a ten year old,inless it was a very mature ten year old.The gatekeepers is also a thriller series by Anthony Horowitz
Silverfin and Blood Fever by Charlie Higson is great ,Eoin Colfer's Artimis Fowl series is really good,
Peter and the star catchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson is a long book about Peter Pan I am 14 and I liked it! LOL
Gary Blackwood has three books in a series that I liked they go in this order. The Shakespear stealer,the shakespear scribe,& the Shakspeare spy they were very good.A lot of people like Eragon by Christopher Paolini,my friend LOVES the Redwall series by Brian Jacques it stars talking animals rather than people.Sammy Keyes is a great fun,funny,mystery,thriller series by Wendelin Van Draanen.
Theres always the clasics,like The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells,or The lord of the rings,
I have read more than 200 Nancy Drew books "I am not bragging,there just good and clean its kind of hard to find books like that"
She might like the Hardy Boys.Anne of Green Gables is not a thriller but it is a good book for girls or anybody.What about Edgar Allen Poe ? Try his story The Raven & The Tell-Tell heart. And if all thease fail, try reading some Fan fiction.to those who dont now, fan fiction is were a fan of a story " like Harry Potter,Nancy Drew,Goosbumps," writes about that story his or her own way, for example Harry Potter in somones story might be a girl instead of a boy or Harry gets sorted into slytherin, Maybe his parents did not die.
On fanfiction.net there are 297,642 Harry Potter stories to choose from.Stephen King has 398 stories.It is really cool!!!
There are more than 400 books to read from!! But you need to watch what you read , there are ratings on the stories . K for kid ,K+ for older kids,T for teens,and M for mature. I now I would not want my child to read somthing dirty.Hope this will help you find your daughter a good book!

Answer 2

You know, another Stephen King book in the same vein is The Talisman that he wrote with Peter Straub.

The Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld might be fun. It's science fiction mostly, about a possible future where you're an Ugly until you reach 16. At that point you have an operation and become a Pretty, and you're only jobi s to have fun. But the protagonist seems to know something isn't quite right, and this follows her through her Ugly, Pretty and Special phases.

Does she like fantasy at all? I understand Tamora Pierce books are good. I have a few, but haven't gotten to them yet (Song of the Lioness Quartet.) I'm also reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which is excellent. These are both YA authors, but I recommend Pullman's to anyone, teen and above.

A series I loved was Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. A group of humans crashes onto another planet and basically have to start over. There are dragons on Pern, and some lucky Pernese "impress" them. Dragons are used to fight Thread, which falls from the sky and destroys whatever it lands on. There are stories about different creatures on Pern as well as the craftspeople and how they develop their skills and it all fits together. This is pre-Eragon, and the style is different. Loved them!

I've also read a few Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider books - a 14 year old works as a spy for the British MI6 group. Lots of adventure; quick read.

Here are a few picked by readers of Shan's series (I've only read one of those so far): Marty Boggs & the Curse of Kutkara's Tomb by M. T. Acquaire, Young Indiana Jones (probably fast reads), The Westing Game, Wrinkle in Time series, and there was a mention of a Mummy series. The last link is shows some that are children's horror series and include the word mummy.

I use Amazon.com a lot when I'm looking for more books. I type in one I like and then, on the left hand side you can usually find a link that reads: Explore similar items. Click on that and you often get 50 more books (although in the case of Darren Shan it looks like you get all of his books!)

Answer 3

If she likes thrillers and is reading King, I would recommend Running with Demons by Terry Brooks. It is a bit dark, but it isn't really horror. It is a thriller. There are some good Alfred Hitchcock books out there. I think I started reading some of Edgar Allan Poe's stuff when I was 12.

What about Michael Crichton? Jurassic Park was certainly suspensful in parts and it is different enough from the movie.

There is also The Vampire Hunters by William Hill. Of course, this is all if she is truly that advanced in her reading. My son is 10 and he likes books like (Harry Potter, of course), Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer, and Anthony Horowitz books (which might be more on the masculine side of things). RL Stine is a good one, and he has some for all ages. Koontz is good for older, more mature readers.

I know I jumped around here, but maybe these ideas might help too.

Answer 4

John Saul. Or Christopher Pike has some good books that are almost like the teenager version of R.L. Stines Goosebump series, which I would have suggested but like so many others said if she is reading Stephen King already those might not keep her entertained.

Answer 5

I was going to suggest RL Stine's Goosebumps series, but if she's already reading Stephen King, then she's a pretty advanced reader. Carrie, Cujo and Christine are good King books for an advanced younger reader. Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a collection of his short stories and it's pretty good. So is Different Seasons, also a collection of short stories. But be careful which of his books you let her read. There's lots of language and graphic and disturbing sex scenes in some of his books. I was reading King at her age, and I'm not TOO awfully disturbed. . .

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Answer 6

Goosebumps is a populare horror series, but if she's already reading King.... they may be too parochial for her.
You could try a different King book - he has many very scary books. But thrillers, King is more about Horror.

try this link
http://www.readersclub.org/subcategory.asp?cat=4&id=41

the thing is that you don't want her to read books too "old" for her bc she won't get some of the meaning that only comes from life experience. I guess I'd aim for books that were written for teens...

Answer 7

My daughter really enjoyed R.L. Stine's books. There is always the Nancy Drew series.

I thinks it's fantastic that she loves to read and gets so much encouragement from you! :-)

Answer 8

James Patterson's "Maximum Ride" series

Answer 9

I am 14 and one book that keeps me really interacted with it is Jimmy Coates: Assassin? . Its a really good book about a kid that's life changes after he finds out that he isn't fully a human. Its a really good thriller for kids a dn teen.

Hope she likes it. Oh it by Joe Craig

Answer 10

Dean Koontz "Tick Tock" Very fun to read.