Books for 11 Year Old Girl...Classics
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I really liked Tale of Two Cities when I read it as a kid. Great Expectations has a lot of layers but no one is likable not even Pip. (His brother-in-law is but he's hardly in the story.) I read it, but I didn't enjoy it. |
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| I read all of Austen at 12 -- its not that over the top. I loved them. |
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the whole Wizard of Oz series
Judy Blume's preteen books the Anastasia series by Lois Lowry taking care of terrific by Lois Lowry Nancy Drew! Gone Away Lake The Saturdays and the other books in that series Half Magic and the others from that series Witch of Blackbird Pond an Calico Captive The Mary Poppins books I think I read Gone With the Wind and the Bronte's when I was 12... |
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And the follow up---Belles on their Toes! |
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And Return to Gone Away!!! I read these both every few months, and I'm 47 
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So I was raiding my parents' John Updike and James Baldwin at age 12. I will not suggest those, although my mother did an admirable job restraining herself when she found me reading them.
But how about: Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises Steinback: The Pearl, others Hilton: Lost Horizon Crane: The Red Badge of Courage London: The Call of the Wild Evelyn Waugh: Scoop, Brideshead Revisited Graham Greene: Travels With My Aunt Buck: The Good Earth Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Huxley: Brave New World Orwell: 1984 Barrie: Peter Pan Kipling: The Jungle Books, Kim McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby West: Day of the Locust Forster: A Passage to India Nabokov: Pnin Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Griffin: Black Like Me Adams: Watership Down Card: Ender's Game Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales Hammet: The Thin Man Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles, others Dumas: The Count of Monte Christo, The Three Musketeers Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Verne: Around the World in 80 Days, others Anonymous: A Thousand and One Nights Shelley: Frankenstein White: The Once and Future King Wells: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man Stevenson: Treasure Island, Kidnapped If she hasn't read Herge's entire Tintin oeuvre, she must. |
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some of those are good suggestions (some of which were already made) but some strike me as wildly unlikely to be appreciated by an 11 yo, even a precocious one.
This thread is great, but also kind of funny in the range of books being suggested. |
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| How about some science? I was kuh-razy about all kinds of National Geographic illustrated series about space, etc. when I was a kid... |
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Thank you.She's only read Treasure Island from this list. |
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| I can't imagine any 11-year-old, no matter how precocious, reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. And The Crying of Lot 49? Good heavens. Why not just give the poor child Ulysses? |
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Crying of Lot 49 is actually an easy read--way easier than V and especially nothing like Gravity's Rainbow. |
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My 12-year-old and his BF are both reading Animal Farm in 7th grade. They attend different schools, and discovered this accidentally. They had a great time discussing the book. Of course they both love history and know a bit about the Soviet Union. My son's class covered the USSR as well. |
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Oh, I just recently read Summer of My German Soldier. I loved it!! What a great book - should have been made into a movie! |
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Shannon Hale- Princess Academy and Goose Girl and it sequels
Penderwicks series by Jean Birdsall Jessica Day George also has a spinoff of fairy tales that starts with the 12 dancing princesses called Princess at the Midnight Ball ED Baker has a number of fairy tale based books similar type content to the Jessica Day George books Rebecca Stead's books are clever and aimed at early middle school age. Flora and Ulysses is more a 4th & 5th grade audience but a wonderful book For more realistic fiction - Wonder, Rules, Counting Sevens and One and Only Ivan, Island of Blue Dolphin, Witch of Blackbird Pond More adventure/fantasy side - Mysterious Benedict Society, Septemus Heap Series, Inccouragble Children of Ashton Place, Series of Unfortunate Events, Theodosia series, Kronos Chronicles (these are just awsome, one of my favorite) Mysteries - Enola Holmes Series, Flavia DeLuce books by Bradley, Girl with Silver Eyes |
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+1 This is a much more practical list than the one above. Remember, just because an 11-year-old can read a book doesn't mean they truly understand it. I'll eat my hat if your 11-year-old really understood half of what was going on in Fahrenheit 451. |