Books for a 11 year old that enjoyed maze runner, divergent and hunger games?

Gone is really not suitable until about 14 I would think!!

Yes to anne McCaffrey, also try Susan cooper dark is rising,..and a lot. Of traditional fantasy (terry brooks etc) , enders game etc,

Artemis Fowl is a great fun series!

I worry quite a lot when my year 7 pick up the Gone series. They are extremely violent with (IMO) strong phallic imagery an implied sexual violence from one of the nastier characters. I also struggled with the deaths of babies/young children (not really a spoiler - incidental to the story and happens very early on) but I'm sure that was more distressing to me as a mum. IMO much much more adult than hunger games or divergent. My year 9 are nagging me to read maze runner - they say it's great. The cherub ones deal with teen romantic relationships. Not sure if there might be a difference between a year 6/year 7 reader in maturity?

Skulduggery Pleasant! Lots of them, strong female lead, darkness, humour.

Maybe try The Missing Link series for him. And Tunnels, Deeper, Free Fall etc. And as a one off, The House on Falling Star Hill (I love this, I still re-read it sometimes). Oh, and The Bromeliad (especially if you're a Pratchett fan!).

Early Cherub books would probably be ok, but they get very grown up very quickly.

For Endlers DD, has she read Eragon? That's getting a bit more into high fantasy. The Midnighters series might be good too. There's the Uglies series too, but it might be a bit old (although I wouldn't have suggested The Hunger Games for an 11 year old, so she might be fine).

Ok, good tips- thank you.

It's not my type of book at all so I'm in the dark here. I'm hoping to get him interested in Pratchett, at least I know what he's reading then.

Queenoflouisuana - if your son is only 9 I would not recommend:-

Noughts and Crosses

The Cherub series

The Gone series

The Enemy series

1984

The Grapes of Wrath

Chaos Walking series

as the content is intended for a much older audience.

Thank you for all the ideas on this thread. DS is gobbling up the Hunger Games trilogy do I need done new ideas.

He's read hunger games, now on Catching Fire, read Ready Player One a few weeks ago. Are these other books likely to be ok for him- he's 10 in May.

Oh and if you live in, or often visit, London have a look at Stone Heart by Charlie Fletcher. It's cool because you recognise so many of the places and statues in it.

Also anything by Tamora Peirce. The Song of the Lioness quartet mentions one of the characters having sex, but other than that they should be fine for younger girl.

I love Garth Nix. If she's fine with The Hunger Games then I would look at Sabriel as a starting place.

Enders Game by Scott Orson Card is another one to make you think. I recently gave a copy to my 12 year old Nephew and he was engrossed by it.

Jane Yolen's Dragons Blood and it's sequels are really good.

Going a bit further back, some of the pulp scifi from before we were born might work. Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr books for example. Or I, Robot.

Wow, that's a long list. And the scary thing is that there is nothing there that I don't own (me not my girls...). Its a good thing that there is no such thing as owning too many book.

How about some epic fantasy. The Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings is a good place to start with that genre and I was in my second year at secondary school the first time I read it. I think that in the wake of Harry Potter they were repackaged and sold as YA fiction.

Or how about the early Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonsong is probably a good place to start) or her Talents books (The Rowan). They all star strong female characters but they aren't particularly girly if that makes sense.

Or the Tripod books or the Prince in Waiting ones by John Christoper.

DS loved Maze Runner and has just started another series by the same author (13th reality? I think) - seems to be going down very well.
Is she into animals? the Erin Hunter books e.g. Warrior Cats series have been very popular too (there are series about dogs and bears too I think)

Princess Academy. Not at all princessy but about a poor mountain community and their climb from subsistence into prosperity through the education of their daughters.

Gone series recommendation here too.

Also Charlie Higson's Enemy series, and Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series (the first being Raven's Gate).

And Enders Game series

Ready Player One by Earnest Cline

Madeleine L'Engel: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet?

The Grapes of Wrath

1984

Alan Garner

The Wind Singer trilogy is good.

Oh and Holes by Louis Sachar, favourite book ever.

I second the Sophie Mackenzie recommendation. My 12 year old DS loved the books you mentioned and is just finishing the Split Second book and its sequel which he read very fast! He's going to try some more of her books next.

I've got the first of the Cherub books in my Amazon basket for him too.

Yy Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness, it's incredible.
Blood Red Road and following books by Moira Young are amazing.
Virals by Kathy Reichs is really good for that age.
Also the books by Suzanne Collins (hunger games) called Gregor the Overlander etc are really excellent too.

I have to read them first to check that dd would like them obviously and

Perfect, need some book ideas for ds

Patrick Ness - fantastic
Gone series, Michael Grant, very American and slightly more trashy
enjoyed both myself very much after DS!