Recommendations for 11 year old keen reader...

[BoogleMcGroogle]

DD is a very good and very keen reader and now we've mined the rich thread of the Percy Jackson ( and associated) novels, we are looking for more ideas. She loves Jacqueline Wilson but has read them all. Mercifully Warrior Cats are all ticked off. Done Harry Potter twice. I think she's a bit bored of 'kids' books as she's started looking more at YA fiction. We are currently reading Children of Blood and Bone together, which is probably not age appropriate but is brilliant!

When I was 11, there was no YA genre really, so I just went straight onto John Lecarre and Jilly Cooper! I'd rather she didn't follow in my footsteps and so any recommendations to bridge the gap would be great....

[BabloHoney]

I started reading Terry Pratchett when I was about 11.. loved them!

[OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea]

Dd is 11 and a huge reader though socially fairly immature.

She likes cogheart, morrigan crow, the girl of ink and stars, the way past winter, the house with chicken legs, the girl who speaks bear not to mention older books like his dark materials, goodnight mr tom, back home, the little house books and so on.

[LetItGoToRuin]

Has she read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and J.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy?

How about classic children and young adult novels? These tend not to have such 'adult' content but be challenging in their vocabulary. www.goodreads.com/genres/childrens-classics

[CuteOrangeElephant]

I really liked Artemis Fowl at that age.

[schmalex]

Has she tried the Skulduggery Pleasant series or perhaps the Lockwood & Co series? These are a bit older than Harry Potter but not young adult in content.

[BlueChampagne]

The Dark is Rising
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Edge Chronicles

Second LetItGoToRuin
Swallows and Amazons
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
A Christmas Carol

[BoogleMcGroogle]

Some great suggestions here. I've tried to interest her in Ursula Le Guin, Pratchett and Pullman who are all favourites of mine, but I think I suggested them too early. I'm going to try again, as we have all those authors on our shelves.

The other ideas are really helpful too, and lots that I've not heard of so I will definitely look them up. Sadly, older classics have tended to go down like a lead balloon. She was so mean about Tarkington the Otter! But the series of Puffin c20th children's classics, she's loved. I think she'd read most of them now though.

Any good sci-fi suggestions?

She's just finished Moondial. I remember being so traumatised by the TV adaptation!

[BlueChampagne]

Not SF, but has she tried Katherine Rundell? Wizards of Once?

SF: Mortal Engines? Jules Verne?

[WhatWouldTheDoctorDo]

His Dark Materials
Hunger Games
Robin Stevens murder most unladylike

[onemouseplace]

DD (10) has just finished the Mortal Engines books and loved them.

Does she like detective books? DD loves the Robin Stevens books, also likes the Sally Lockhart books (Philip Pullman) and loved the Ruby Redfort series. She's now moved onto Agatha Christie.

Diana Wynne Jones? Susan Cooper? - DD is reading the Dark is Rising series at the moment. Alan Garner? We've had more success with classic fantasy children's literature than the other classics, although The Box of Delights did go down well.

[Cheeseontoast4]

Another vote for The Mortal Engines series - DS just started the prequels too.

Also he loved The Dark Materials , The Hobbit and got half way through the Lord of the Rings before he lost track !