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Classic books for 11yr old

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HypodeemicNerdle · 04/11/2015 19:01

Can anyone recommend some classic books for an 11yr old please.
My DD's teacher has suggested she expands her reading material but I'm not sure where to start, the only book he suggested was treasure island which DD has already read.
She's a huge hunger games fan and is mature enough to understand it. She's asked to read the twilight saga too but I've said no to that for now!
Any suggestions would be great, thanks

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Leeds2 · 04/11/2015 20:59

Street Child - Berlie Doherty
Family From One End Street - Eve Garnett
Tom Sawyer
The Hobbit
A Christmas Carol
Peter Pan

spankhurst · 04/11/2015 20:19

A Traveller in Time, Alison Uttley.
The Children of the New Forest
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
The Sherlock Holmes stories
Jane Austen?

Sadik · 04/11/2015 20:12

She's probably read some/all of these but what about:

Anne of Green Gables + sequels
Rosemary Sutcliff - Eagle of the Ninth plus sequels, and lots of others
Philip Pullman Northern Lights series
Little Women
Flambards (debatably a classic, but DD brought it home from school in yr6 in a puffin classics version!)
Alice in Wonderland / through the Looking Glass
The Hunting of the Snark
Black Beauty
Watership Down

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