book recommendation for ten-year old girl??

Question

i'v got 2 get a gift for a ten-year old girl's birthday and i thought about giving her a story book..but the problem is that she hates reading and i dunno wat book 2 gift her which will make her wana read it or even ignite a passion for books in her..help,plzz??

actually,she'l b 12!!!!!!sorry 4 my mistake..

Answer 1

My almost 12 year old daughter's favorite book in the world is Who Moved My Cheese. It really gave her a lot of confidence and sparked her interest in reading. My other daughter loves Nancy Drew and Judy Blume books. A book is such a great gift

Answer 2

twilight by: stephenie meyer sounds good, but is recommended for 12 and up, so be careful there,
check out barnes&noble.com for synopsis, seems a little much for a 10 year old.
If she hates books, note the first answer, getting one for her b-day might be even more a reason to hate books. If you want to get her one, how about combining it with something else?
I got my nephew a book, but put a gift card inside, it doesn't have to be a big gift card, even $10 isn't bad. Make it to a store they like. Old Navy, The Gap, (which are really the same store/company, Old Navy is just less expensive)somewhere where $10 will actually buy something.
Find out what might be more likely to catch her interest:

Classics
Fiction & Literature
Health & Beauty
Social Issues
Fantasy & Magic

Then use that as a tool to find a book that might fit her interests.
some examples:

Harry Potter (series of books)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Keeping Secrets (Hannah Montana Series #1)
by Beth Beechwood (alot of kids her age like Hannah Montana)
Magic Treehouse (series of books)
Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo Series, (series of books)

Make a little basket/bag of goodies: A book, bookmark, some munchies or sweets to go with it, and a little gift card. If you choose wisely you can do this for 20-25 bucks, not an unreasonable ammount for 10 yo girl, unless u want to spend more, like for a niece. Paperbacks are cheaper than hardcover.
Good Luck!

Answer 3

* Peeps: A Candy-coated Tale, by Mark Masyga and Martin Ohlin. A very fun, comic look at Candy Land and the world of Peeps. Includes News Stories, exposes, and even a yearbook.
* The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Several unrelated people are named to a strange will. They must solve a riddle, and the winner inherits an estate worth millions. Very comic, with lots of twists.
* Radio Fifth Grade, by Gordon Korman (actually, you can't go wrong with Gordon Korman in general). Follows the exploits of a student in-school radio program.
* If you think she would like anime, I like Full Metal Alchemist and Fruits Basket. These are very popular with that age group.
* Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious creatures that may or may not exist, by Kelly Milner Halls. This is a lot of fun, and graphics intese. Basically, covers information about legendary beats -- most which are myth, but some which are not.
* Unexplained, by Judy Allen, is somewhat similar to the above. Also very good.
* Candlewick Press has a whole bunch of very cool, very sophisticated "machanical books." My personal favorites are "Egyptology" and "Dragonology." Other good ones include "Piratology" and "Wizardology." I have all of these. These mix original story with some fact/legend thrown in.
* If the young lady likes strange and unusual facts, the latest copy of the Guinness World Records could be a hit. The newest ones are very graphic-intese and very colorful.

For more ideas, visit http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=155692 This is supplied by the American Library Association, and has many lists of ideas for the situation you have described -- books for the preteen and teen that doesn't care for reading.

Answer 4

Jacqueline Wilson. Honestly, when I was 10, I used to read Jacqueline Wilson all the time. Her books are witty and she understands the points of views and personalities of young children. She also portrays in her books, the reality of how children have difficult lives, who have no parents, divorced parents, bad friends, debt problems and extreme situations and I think that's what makes her novels interesting, because of the characters she writes her stories about.

If she's into horror and fantasy, I used to read Darren Shan, and they were compelling novels about a boy who went to a freak show with his friend and ended up becoming a vampire assistant to one of the performers for the rest of his life.

Or, you could give her women's books like the Naughty Girl's Guide to Life because to them it's grown up and cool, but the book is actually funny.

You could give her books on spellcasting and witchcraft if she's into that sort of thing. Mind reading and astral projecting might be good.

You could give her vouchers at a book store so she could browse and pick her own books that she's interested in.

And sometimes people also are happy when you just buy them sweets, as an alternative.

Answer 5

Perhaps a Harry Potter book, those are fairly popular with people of all ages. If not, Sweet Valley High was a series I read a lot at that age. Or maybe A Series of Unfortunate Events. It is a series of 13 books filled with surprising twists, an evil villain, and three orphan children whom are really quite clever.

Answer 6

THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET by Pseudonymous Bosch

Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year-old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.

Peter and the Starcatchers Trilogy by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Answer 7

Um, try Judy Blume books. They're cute, totally don't have anything obscene in them and can be funny. Also, try Jerry Spinelli books, such as Do The Funky Pickle and Report to the Principal's Office; they're well written, are funny and have good characters.

Good Luck! ;)

OTHER AUTHORS TO LOOK INTO:

-Sharon Creech*
-R.L. Stine
-Ann M. Martin*
-J.K. Rowling

Answer 8

I would recommend anything by Gordon Korman, particularly 'I Want to Go Home!' Gordon Korman is hilarious.
But if she hates reading, hopefully she'll at least try to read the book.

Answer 9

Books about 12 year old girls...maybe reading about girls who are her age will make her identify with the stories...

Olivia Kidney and the secret beneath the city (5th book in a series)
Ellen Potter
Author: Potter, Ellen, 1963-
While preparing for her participation in the princepessa's wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie.

New York: Philomel Books, 2007, 336 p.
Other Books In the Series: Olivia Kidney, Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy, Olivia Kidney hot on the trail, Olivia Kidney stops for no one

Kiki Strike: inside the shadow city
by Kirsten Miller
Author: Miller, Kirsten, 1973-
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.

New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006, 250 p.

Horns and wrinkles
by Joseph Helgerson ; illustrations by Nicoletta Ceccoli
Author: Helgerson, Joseph
Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River near Blue Wing, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a helpful fairy, and a group of trolls searching for their fathers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 368 p.

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata
Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006, 272 p.

Rules
Cynthia Lord
Author: Lord, Cynthia
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

New York: Scholastic Press, 2006, 200 p.

Semiprecious
D. Anne Love
Author: Love, D. Anne
Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."

New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2006, 304 p.

Amazing story of Adolphus Tips, The
by Michael Morpurgo
Author: Morpurgo, Michael
When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

New York: Scholastic Press, 2006, 140 p.

Bread and roses, too
by Katherine Paterson
Author: Paterson, Katherine
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

New York: Clarion Books, 2006, 288 p.

Pish Posh
Ellen Potter
Author: Potter, Ellen, 1963-
Eleven-year-old Clara Frankofile sits in her parents' elegant New York City restaurant, Pish Posh, and passes judgement on each customer as a Somebody or a Nobody, but her all-seeing eyes fail to observe the mysterious events occurring right under her nose.

New York: Philomel Books, 2006, 166 p.


Caped 6th grader: totally toxic!, The
Zoe Quinn ; [illustrated by Brie Spangler]
Author: Quinn, Zoe
While training for her superhero test, twelve-year-old Zoe helps investigate a new laundry detergent factory on the edge of town that seems to be dumping toxic waste into the river.

New York: Yearling, 2006, 160 p.
Book 2 in a 4 part series - other books: The Caped 6th grader: happy birthday, hero!, The Caped 6th grader: lightning strikes!, The Caped 6th grader: cabin fever

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Answer 10

what about something written by meg cabot or stephanie meyer. I liked the book the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd. also spite fences by trudy krisher . there are several good ones out there . good luck and happy reading .