Classics for age 11-12 DD

[dystylam]

I feel like it is time for DD to read or to listen to audiobooks of some classics- but which ones?

I read Little Women at that age and probably some others but I can't remember which ones as I read tons from age 13-16 but I want a fun introduction.

I've just started finished Frankenstein and now listening to the Count of Monte Cristo on audible- I first read it about age 16 and again in my early 30s so it's nice to have it read to me so I may just let her listen instead of reading

Has she read any of the classic childrensbooks?
Thinking:
EH Nesbitt - Railway Children/Phoenix and the Carpet/Five Children and It.
Heidi.
Ann of Green Gables.
What Katie Did.
Tom's Midnight Garden
A Traveller in Time
Ballet Shoes

Swallows and Amazons
The Dark is Rising

The Hobbit/LOTR
Treasure Island
Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Black Beauty
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking glass
The Secret Garden.
I second Heidi and Anne of Green Gables aswell

the Narnia books.
Philip Pullman (the Northern Lights trilogy if you think she's old enough to get through long books, but he's written lots of other stuff as well).
Alan Garner-Moon of Gomrath and Wierdstone of Brinsingamen.
Tarka the Otter
Wind in the Willows
Mallory Blackman -- "modern classics", they must be on every school reading list.

I loved Jane Eyre at that age (before I had to do it for GCSE!) also the Far Pavilions and Winter.
Children of the New Forest?
Three Musketeers
Goodnight Mr Tom
There was one I read which was about an outlaw girl falling in love with someone who wasn't. She had a necklace which they found out meant she was kidnapped by the band of outlaws and wasn't their family. There was a (bbc?) film or series around the same time. Can't remember the title!

More of a modern classic, but I loved the Outsiders at that age

Daphne Du Maurier
A Little White Horse

The girl with the necklace could have been Lorna Doone?

Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, or I Am David by Anne Holme. Modern classics, I guess.
Tom Sawyer, and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Little House On The Prairie series.
I used to love Anne of Green Gables.
Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. As well as Secret Garden.
Journey To The River Sea, by Eva Ibbotson. Or any Eva Ibbotson book! I have just finished the Star of Kazan.
Swallows and Amazons series.
Oliver Twist.
Dracula.
Weirdstone of Brinsingamen by Alan Garner.

Is Dracula ok for an 11 year old?

She's a little bit old for Narnia, I would have thought. Ditto the rather sickly Frances H-B. How about The Scarlet Pimpernel? Or maybe The Prisoner of Zenda?

Might just find Dracula a bit boring!

Has she expressed an interest in the Classics?

I remember my parents at that age trying to nudge me from Trebizon and The Babysitters Club onto something more highbrow and I just found it irritating. I got there in my own time.

I, Robot
Earth
Clan of the Cave Bear
North and South
Animal Farm
Dune
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Enders Game
Emma

Emma Tupper's Diary

I forgot "I capture the castle". It's about teenage girls so might appeal.

Absolutely the Anne of Green Gables series. Perfect age for it.