Some new ideas for dd aged 11

[Dancergirl]

She's a keen and able reader, about to start secondary school, but I've noticed recently her bookshelves look a little bare.

She's recently read:

All the Harry Potters
Holly Webb books
A lot of Jacqueline Wilson
Nancy Drew
A lot of classics - the Railway Children, What Katy Did (and next etc)! A Little Princess, the Secret Garden etc

What else could she try?

Roman mysteries
Series of unfortunate events
Lady Grace mysteries
Julia Golding - cat royal series

Warrior Cats series - very popular with my 11 yr old at the moment. By Erin Hunter. NOT all about fighting!

The Companion Quartet (and I forgot the author's name, but they are eminently googlable )
Percy Jackson
Skullduggery Pleasant
Anne of Green Gables
Little House series
Anything by Monica Hughes
Anything by HM Hoover
Robert Swindells, although Stone Cold and a couple of others are for older children, and some would possibly be a bit young - you'd need to check the blurb - Timesnatch, Eater of Worlds, and the Outfit series are good.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix. I love these and hate Abhorsen, they're aimed at a somewhat younger reader than the Abhorsen ones are I think, the first one is Mister Monday and they go all the way to Sunday now.

The Little White Horse
Wizard of Earthsea series
Children of Green Knowe series
The Dark is Rising series

Watership Down?

The Hunger games
Knots and Crosses
Tunnels

I think it's noughts and crosses amck - and yes it's good, poss a little old for her

Sounds like she could cope with the Hobbit

And she will LOVE Diana Wynne Jones. I would start with 'Charmed Life' or 'A Tale of Time City' or 'Homeward Bounders'. A few, like 'fire and hemlock' or a couple of the more recent ones are poss a bit old for her. But all the chrestomanci ones will work for her now.

thats right thalia :) - i couldn't be bothered to go upstairs to my sons room to check! I haven't read them so no idea at what level they are, but my 10 and 11 year old boys have read and enjoyed them,

If she's into ebooks try 'The Message'

Dogsbody, D W Jones again.
Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Jane Blonde, Sprite Sisters, Meg Cabot, The Dork Diaries.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Went to a fantastic bookshop today and she chose the Cornelia Funke Ink trilogy. Should keep her going for a while!

The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric is a brilliant book, set in Venice - I would have loved it at 11!

Does she have a reading list from her secondary school - DD did and it's been really useful.

She had some of the following on her list -

The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd

Underworld - Cathy MacPhail

Angel Cake - Cathy Cassidy

Once (Once/Now/Then/After) - Morris Gleitzman

Flood Child - Emily Diamand

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

DD is 11 yo. She is currently reading The Emerald Atlas but has also recently enjoyed The Hunger Games and Unhooking the Moon.

Dd11 really enjoyed casson family,Hunger games

Eva Ibbotson's books for older children might be just right - Star of Kazan, Journey to the River Sea, and The Dragonfly Pool.

Holes?

Twilight

No sorry you wanted good ideas - not what my 11y is actually reading (the joys of big sisters )

Philip Reeve - the mortal engines quartet

I love them