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Fiction book for 11 year old girl

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Mytwobeautifulgirls · 20/08/2016 20:47

Evening all, my eldest daughter starts secondary school soon!! She has been told to bring a fiction book to read.
Does anyone have any recommendations...?

She is not overally kean on reading so would benefit from something that will be interesting, funny and probably quite true to real life..

Any ideas greatly appreciated
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Ollycat · 26/08/2016 08:20

My daughter starts secondary in September she generally reads dystopian fiction or tear jerky things like Tge Fault In Our Stars or All The Bright Places. She's just read the Twilight Series - v trashy but she read the whole series in a couple of weeks.

Some suggestions

Hunger Games
Divergent
Harry Potter
Book Thief
The Golden Compass

Zoella has a Book Club and the books in it aren't bad so worth looking at.

Things by Terri Terry (yes terrible name but books OK)

Maggot Moon
The Boy In the striped pyjamas

These are a few off the top of my head but happy to go through her bookshelf for more ideas.

Dizzybintess · 25/08/2016 21:56

Anything by Judy Blume

Fresta · 24/08/2016 00:19

My dd is 11 and has recently read

The Hunger Games
Warrior Cats (she loves these and is on her 4th box set!)
Toms midnight Garden
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
The Lie Tree
Wolf Wilder
Cog heart (currently book of the month in waterstones)

She also still likes Jaqueline Wilson books and has read quite a few over the past few years.

seventhgonickname · 23/08/2016 17:44

Charlie Bone series,Wildwood trilogy,Roal Dhal.

pixZie78 · 23/08/2016 15:55

My just turned 12 dd has been off reading for a year or two now, but just read 'Goodbye Stranger' by Rebecca Stead and couldn't put it down (she'd also liked 'Liar & Spy' by the same author). She also really liked 'Picture Me Gone' by Meg Rosoff. Sadly she will read one book she loves and then it's back to square one trying to find another to tempt her off the screens (losing battle...)

Summer888 · 22/08/2016 15:52

Car Jacked by Ali Sparks
Wonder (truly amazing book that everyone falls in love with, even those that don't usually like to read, true to life and funny)
Harry Potter (if she hasn't read them yet - my 11 year old is working her way through them and says they are much better than the films)

insan1tyscartching · 22/08/2016 15:49

Another oldie "Marianne Dreams" by Catherine Storr. It's a gentle fantasy novel about a girl whose drawings come to life. Dd loves it.

Floey · 22/08/2016 15:37

Bear with me. I recommend the Roman Mysteries. Great stories but believe it or not, my daughter got great marks in Latin and History in year 7 and it was due to reading those books! Written by Caroline Laurence

validusername · 21/08/2016 18:01

11 year old DD is into Judy Blume at the moment. Old school I know but she loves them.

Redsrule · 21/08/2016 17:59

Eve Ibbotson is great as are Sally Gardner, Neil Gaiman, Phillip Reeve, Derek Landy. I would check what is on the syllabus for English though. The new Sacher ' Fuzzy Mud' is funny, contemporary and explores both environmental concerns and bullying. Wonder and Coraline are popular Y7 texts and she would probably rather explore the class reader in lessons.

Bobochic · 21/08/2016 16:54

The Village by the Sea
The Bridge to Terabithia
When Marnie Was There
Tom's Midnight Garden
Hugo Cabret
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The School for Good and Evil

amidawish · 21/08/2016 15:55

my yr5 DD (who isn't an avid reader or that good at English) has been told to stop reading Enid Blyton & Jacqueline Wilson and to "move on a level" by a few different teachers over the past year

the vocab, sentence structure etc really isn't great.

yes it's good that they read, and if it gets them reading when they otherwise wouldn't, then fine (DD is reading lots of JW over the summer) but it is just not a book i would advise turning up to yr7 English with!

MrsGsnow18 · 21/08/2016 13:52

Louise Rennison books are hilarious!

EllyMayClampett · 21/08/2016 13:50

Ugg! Typing on a phone. Sorry!

That should read "a shelf of Jacqueline Wilson!"

And lived=loved

EllyMayClampett · 21/08/2016 13:49

Wonder is a super book. I don't know a child who hasn't fallen in love with it. It would be an easy read too.

I second Noughts and Crosses. DD lived that one. Both DDs have read several Malorie Blackman books.

TheTartOfAsgard · 21/08/2016 13:47

The hobbit.

EllyMayClampett · 21/08/2016 13:46

I don't think a school would mind. Every prestigious, London girls' school that we toured had at least of Jacqueline Wilson in the library.

amidawish · 21/08/2016 10:44

i don't think the school would be very impressed with Jacqueline Wilson for yr 7s.

Wonder
One (Carnegie Winner)

are both great books and easy to read

GetAHaircutCarl · 21/08/2016 10:24

Anything by Jean Ure and Sophie MCKenzie.

GetAHaircutCarl · 21/08/2016 10:19

Coraline.
Charlotte Sometimes.
Noughts and Crosses.
Ways To Live Forever.

brightspark2 · 21/08/2016 09:53

Anne McCaffrey - the Tower series is good - telepathic/telekinetic teenagers - Damia etc

tinytreefrog · 21/08/2016 09:52

Murder most unladylike like?
Fairly easy read, but quite a thrilling story. Dd1 11 enjoyed it.

dementedma · 21/08/2016 09:00

The Silver Sword by Ian Serailler

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 21/08/2016 08:57

Caroline by Neil Gaimen?

JustRichmal · 21/08/2016 08:36

Gerald Durrell, My family and other Animals
Alison Sparks, Frozen in Time
Lauren St John, The White Giraffe.

Dd loves fantasy stories and has been hooked on Percy Jackson for years.

It may be worth going along to a library and getting out a few books to see which ones still interest her after the first few pages.