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Classics for 12 year old dd?

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SolidGold · 13/11/2013 21:44

Dd (12) loves reading, but prefers girlie stuff like Cathy Cassidy. I'd like her to start reading more varied stuff including some classics. Any suggestions what she could start with that would catch her attention and make her want more?!

She enjoyed The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, I can't persuade her to read The Hobbit though.

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SolidGold · 13/11/2013 22:30

She's read Charlottes Web and most of the Judy Moody books. Also some Astrid Lindgren. Not sure about Catcher, may have to read it again myself to check.

Some of the others I haven't read, will check them out.

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notyummy · 13/11/2013 22:30

White Fang
Call of the Wild
Water ship Down
When Hitler Stole pink Rabbit/The Machingunners/The Silver Sword- all brilliantly exciting intros to WW2 but not too graphic

Hassled · 13/11/2013 22:27

Definitely To Kill A Mockingbird.
Is she too young for Catcher in the Rye?

Phineyj · 13/11/2013 22:25

Some of Astrid Lindgren's books? Possibly Rosemary Sutcliffe. Elizabeth Goudge - Linnets amd Valerians. Seconding Children of the New Forest as well.

oscarwilde · 13/11/2013 22:20

Children of the New Forest ?
Jock of the Bushveld
The Silver Brumby series
Charlotte's web
Judy Blume stories
To kill a Mockingbird

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SolidGold · 13/11/2013 22:11

Yes, she's read all the Chalet School books. Also read and loved Charlotte Sometimes.

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SolidGold · 13/11/2013 22:10

Thanks. She loves Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna and Little Women. She's not keen on What Katy Did or Alice in Wonderland. I'll take a look at the others

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Takver · 13/11/2013 21:52

DD also just got a box of hand me down Chalet School books and is happily working her way through them, appears she is not too old for them (tho she is a little younger, 11.5)

ReluctantCamper · 13/11/2013 21:52

Oh yes, little house on the prairie, great suggestion.

Takver · 13/11/2013 21:51

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ReluctantCamper · 13/11/2013 21:51

All that Katy did
Anne of green gables (god how I loved that book!)
A wizard of earth sea (although if she's not keen on the hobbit you may struggle with this one)
The jungle book
King Solomon's mines

Hmm, I may have given too much thought to what books my 2 year old DC should read.....

Takver · 13/11/2013 21:51

I have to say dd loves fantasy & reads loads of it, but wasn't inspired by the Hobbit particularly.

What about:
Anne of Green Gables series (dd loved them)
Little Women plus sequels (ditto, I would have thought them too dated, but appears not)
Flambards series (re-issued as a Puffin Classic recently)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books if she hasn't already read them?

I have the opposite problem and try to sneak fluffy stuff into the welter of dystopian angst Grin

Waswondering · 13/11/2013 21:46

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