what is your tween reading right now?
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Anonymous
| Looking for responses more geared towards kids who are readings non graphic novels, comics, too easy books, etc. I'm not dissing any of those choices...just not trying to get ideas from those areas. Preferably aged 9+ |
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DS is 12.
Some of his last books were: Michael Strogoff. Animal Farm. A year in Provence and other Peter Mayle books. Bill Bryson books. The Children of the New Forest. Foundation novels. Last year: The Lord of the Rings. Isaac Asimov short stories. My Family and other Animals. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Other Sherlock Holmes short stories. |
Anonymous
| I don't ask. I take her to the library and she goes to the children's section and I go to the adult section. I know that a few times, I've seen her in the stacks talking with librarians so I think she gets suggestions from them sometimes. |
Anonymous
| recent books besides a lot of graphic novels, Animal Farm, Sherlock Holmes, 1984, Tale of Two Cities, various philosophy books. |
Anonymous
| Joyce's Ulysses was a big hit and Infinite Jest. DC also loves anything Tolstoy, even the lesser translations in English. |
Anonymous
Actual 9 year old  - series of unfortunate events (loved the word play and young enough to still love the repetition), prydain books by Lloyd Alexander, Nancy drew series, revisiting Judy Blume fudge series.
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9 yo - The Magisterium series, The Percy Jackson series, the My Life as a (Book, Stuntman, Cartoonist...) series.
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Her current library haul:
The Miss Peregrine series Something by rick Riordan that isn't Percy Jackson (she read all of those already). Hunger Games trilogy (she borrowed them, but hasn't decided if she wants to read them or not). |
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my teen is reading his texts, but when he was a tween and still doing a lot of reading on his own, I would check out amazon for his age group and cull through recommendations. there's lots of great stuff for tweens now. he loved:
wonder one and only ivan out of my mind inside out and back again el deafo pax holes hatchet counting by 7s when you reach me escape from mr lemoncello's library liar & spy booked by Kwame alexander crossover by same because of mr terupt |
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| Lord of the Flies. He's crossing out the names and writing in his siblings. |
Anonymous
| My 12 yr old DS is reading the teen version of Enrique's Journey. Puts a lot into perspective. |
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My 10 year old son has enjoyed:
Crossover by Kwame Alexander Booked by Kwame Alexander Ghost by Jason Reynolds Being Mr. Terupt by Scott Buyea Mr. Terupt Falls Again by Buyea The Best Man, by Richard Peck He liked Pax last year. (Sad, though) A "scary" ghost story called "Took" by Mary Downing Hahn Shiloh A Scholastic book called Crunch, about a gas shortage. It was really pretty cool. He's got the Playbook (K. Alexander again) and The Girl Who Drank the Moon on his shelf to read next. |
Anonymous
| My 10 year old is currently on book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. |
Anonymous
+1. My oldest really liked that series. |