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Enjoyable reading for dd age 11-12. What can I do to get her reading again?

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Wotz · 03/02/2008 16:13

DD enjoyed reading Roald Dahl but has read them all now.
Has read some Jacqueline Wilson but didn't like them.

Any suggestions? Age 11-12 year old who likes to read Mizz Magazine and nothing else ATM!

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rachaelsara · 03/02/2008 22:03

Balls! A Series of Unfortunate Events - 13 Books in a Box !!

rachaelsara · 03/02/2008 22:02

My girl really enjoyed www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/categoryPage_10001_10051_10009_100_10006__19

seeker · 03/02/2008 21:57

Karen McCombie
Helen McKay

Both huge favourites with my dd who's 12. The are both series about a family - helen McKay is marginally more challenging but they are both easy but absorbing reads.

RosaLuxOnTheBrightSideOfLife · 03/02/2008 21:44

DD1 got Ingo by Helen Dunmore for Christmas and LOVED it. I read it the other night and thought it was fab. And it is the first of a trilogy, DD is begging for the other two now. It's about a brother and sister living in Cornwall, who become involved with the Merpeople, but it is not cutesy, it is dark and gripping.

slayerette · 03/02/2008 17:37

My Yr 7 girls like Michael Morpurgo, Michelle Magorian, Jacqueline Wilson, The Princess Diaries (don't know who wrote those, sorry), David Almond...

OLDroot · 03/02/2008 17:34

this is an amazing book

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Wotz · 03/02/2008 17:26

I got her this for christmas it was very good
How To Be The Best At Everything (The Girls' Book)

If I get some time I might have to add a MN review on it.

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Wotz · 03/02/2008 17:24

I have been in the review section on MN for this age and there are only 2 books reviewed.

I have now a couple of bids on some ebay books for her.

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Slouchy · 03/02/2008 17:08

www.amazon.com/Angus-Thongs-Full-Frontal-Snogging-Confessions/dp/0064472272

Slouchy · 03/02/2008 17:07

Try Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
The Yfronts and full frontal snogging one might appeal if she likes magazines _ i'' link to it
POint Horror if she likes scaries - not well written but get her back into enjoying books; or anythign by Christopher Pike if Point Horror too easy
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
How about some easier adult fiction like Jamaica Inn (daphne du Mauirier)
Adrian Mole diaries - Sue Townsend?

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Wotz · 03/02/2008 17:03

just found this, want to stick it here to remind myself for later

Island of the Aunts - Ibbotson, Eva

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Wotz · 03/02/2008 16:26

Thank you, I want to make a list and take her to the library. I realised on the last three occasions she wasn't with my as she didn't want to come.

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duchesse · 03/02/2008 16:20

My own 12 yr old daughter suggests anything by Eve Ibbotson or Michelle Magorian (Journey to the River Sea by EI; Back Home by MM; Star of Kazahn and Secret Countess by EI)

Both daughters recommend When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.

I recommend: I, Coriander by Sally Gardner (sort of mystical/ historical novel set in Restoration period that I thoroughly enjoyed as well).

I was a Rat, by Phillip Pullman, and the Northern Lights trilogy (recommended by my 10 yr old, but maybe wait until your daughter's stamina has been built up again).

Will keep thinking on it.

PuppyDogTails · 03/02/2008 16:16

My DSD loves Anthony Horowitz (she's 11)