Sci-Fi recommendations for DD (10)

[Mercedes]

Hi

I am looking for sci-fi books for my dd to widen her reading choices. I've tried her own Terry Pratchett but neither of us liked them. from memory I read Ursula Le Guin when I was young. Any other recommendations ?

Diana Wynne Jones? I liked the Chrestomanci ones when I was that sort of age.

Madeleine d'engle _ a wrinkle in time

Tamora Pierce has good Fantasy with female protagonists suitable for a 10 yr old. All are great series.

Elizabeth Goudge - Little White Horse
Madeline L'engle - Wrinkle in Time
Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series?

Do you mean sci fi as in spaceships and aliens, or sci fantasy with dragons and alternative worlds. Or both.

John Christopher - most of him but the Tripods trilogy might be a good starting point.

Some John Wyndham - not all great for children but Chocky might be a good starting point.

Anything by Frances Hardinge should be spot on for her age group - id start with Fly by Night or Gullstruck Island.
The Artemis Fowl books are great if she hasn't read them. And of course if she is a voracious reader and keeps running out of books then there's a huge number of Doctor Who / Sarah Jane Smith books, which I'm pretty sure are all age appropriate (there's a whole heap of books waiting for her at age 13/14 but most of them have adult content that's beyond a 10 year old).

Second Ursula Le Guin, Joan Aitken and Elizabeth Goudge (second 2 maybe more magical realism than sci fi)

How about Jasper Fforde's "Last Dragonslayer"?
Jules Verne?

I liked Madeline L'Engle a lot at that age so I second that. And Jules Verne too. Then I got really into Isaac Asimov (the robot series, and then the foundation series). They are cringe-worthy now as he was NOT a good writer in terms of human interaction, emotion, character... but I loved them :) They do have some interesting ideas in them. Like DilysPrice I can think of some that have inappropriate content for the age but will be great in a few years (the Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold is an all-time favourite!!). Some of Robert Heilein's books might be age-appropriate (I can't remember; some are not). Oh - what about Snowcrash, or Zodiac, by Neal Stevenson?

Andre Norton. I remember reading Moon of Three Rings when I was a girl - and it seems it's a series (Now I'm going to have to find the rest!)

She wrote a lot of young adult fiction, both SF and Fantasy. And some seriously good adult SF too.

I agree that Ursula le Guin is absolutely amazing too. Some of her social commentaries (ie novels) are extremely thought-provoking.

If you're thinking of fantasy rather than 'straight' sci-fi then my dd (10 in a fortnight) likes:
Frances Hardinge (Fly by Night), Diana Wynne Jones, the Eragon trilogy, Jasper Fforde (Last Dragonslayer), Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong trilogy.

She liked A Wizard of Earthsea, but not the next two so much (I think too old for her).

She's been reading the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik which someone on here recommended, it is alternate history (I guess a bit of a steampunk feel) set in the Napoleonic wars, and although sold as an adult novel fine for children IMO (there is a very little obliquely referred to sex).

Anything by HM Hoover or Monica Hughes. Or Heinlein's juvenile novels.
Robert Swindells is good too, but some of his are for older readers so you'd have to have a flick through and decide if you think they'd be suitable or not. Room 13 is one of his that is for younger readers, and is a take on the Dracula legend sort of, with a school trip to Whitby where of course the children take on and despatch a vampire in their guest house
Nicholas Fisk writes great sci-fi for younger readers too, Grinny, or any of his short stories, or the Starstormers series has five books in it.

Try newly published book for 9 years and over - The Firestone Crystal - by Linda M David

DD is 10yo & I would think she's a bit too young for most of these. Shall have a think & come back.

Cosmic, Frank Cottrell Boyce.
The Phantom Toll Booth

'George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt' by Lucy and Stephen Hawking is classed as a 9-12 sci-fi book.

Try some Garth Nix - probably the keystone series would appeal most, although the keys to the kingdom series is also very readable.

Am seconding Garth Nix, but would leave the Abhorsen series until age 12-13 (they are brilliant though).

Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series is also fabulous. As a side track into mythology, I wholeheartedly recommend Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, I have hardly spoken to my children over the Easter holidays My children love them, as do DH and I.

Agree with John Christopher, John Wyndham and especially Tamora Pierce. I loved her books at your DD's age still do and her female characters are very strong, independent and intelligent.

Alan Garner, Alan Garner, Alan Garner!